Archibald Haddock (123456789)
COMP-202A, Section 0 (Fall 2009)
Instructor: Cuthbert Calculus
Assignment 1, Question 1


1) The general instructions and regulations state:
      "a lateness penalty of 5% per day late or fraction thereof (including
       weekends and holidays) will be applied to all late submissions, up to a
       maximum of two full days past the assignment deadline"
   Joe sent his Assignment 1 submission 36 hours late. This is 1 full day late
   (5% penalty), plus a fraction of a day late (5%, as all leftover fractions of
   days are penalized by 5%). Therefore, a total lateness penalty of 10% is
   applied to Joe's submission. The general instructions and regulations also
   state:
      "the 5% penalty is calculated using the maximum possible grade for the
       assignment, NOT the grade the student receives for his / her submission
       before application of the lateness penalty."
   The maximum possible grade on assignment 1 is 100 points, therefore Joe's
   lateness penalty for that assignment is 0.10 x 100 = 10 points. His
   assignment grade after application of the lateness penalty is therefore 90 -
   10 = 80 / 100.

2) The general instructions and regulations state:
      "Starting with assignment 2, students who submit source code files for a
       given question which contain compilation errors will get at most 25% of
       the value of that question."
   * Mary's program for question 1 contains compilation errors. This question is
     worth 20 points, so the maximum grade she can get is:
        0.25 x 20 = 5 / 20.
   * Mary's program for question 2 compiles successfully; this question is worth
     40 points, so she can full marks on this question. The maximum grade she
     can get is therefore:
        1 x 40 = 40 / 40
   * Mary's program for question 3 contains compilation errors. This question is
     worth 40 points, so the maximum grade she can get is:
        0.25 x 40 = 10 / 40.
   The highest grade Mary can get on assignment 2 is therefore 5 + 40 + 10 =
   55 / 100.
   
3) The general instructions and regulations state:
      "Before your program reads a value from the keyboard, it MUST display a
       prompt describing what the user is required to enter, the meaning of this
       value, which values are acceptable, and/or which values are illegal."
   
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   due date for this assignment has passed.
   
5) If you have trouble understanding where you made mistakes on your assignment
   after it has been graded, then this is a query. The Policy on Queries and
   Complaints about Assignment Grading states you should send all queries to the
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