[Cs4800] retirement of avatars

[Karl Lieberherr]

Please submit your source files and analysis document as a zip archive.

-- Karl

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Karl Lieberherr <lieber at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> It is time to retire your avatars. They have evaluated each other and
> determined lots of winners who, I claim, have correct and efficient
> implementations. We will see the code in some of those avatars on Monday
> and Wednesday.
> Please submit the avatars by today at 5pm. This deadline is not strict but
> we hope to get many submissions today.
>
> Ravi will evaluate your code and give you feedback and compare it with
> your run-time analysis.
>
> Please submit two packages
> edu.neu.ccs.scg.avatar.HSR.f11.<team name>
> edu.neu.ccs.scg.avatar.MMG.f11.<team name>
> to Blackboard, the first one under HSR Avatar and the second under MMG
> Avatar.
> Submit source files defining the four methods + any additional jar files
> you might have been using plus the analysis
> file in one package.
>
> Don't submit any of the code or jars we gave to you.
>
> Please include in each package a file run-time-analysis.txt which contains
> the run-time analysis of your solve method implementation and using O
> notation. You already worked on this earlier but you might have an update.
>
> If you claim that your avatar was also prepared to handle 100 000 rungs,
> but somehow you could not participate in the tournament explain in your
> submission  in file run-time-analysis.txt:
>
>  1. The features of your algorithm that make it scale well.
>  2. The test inputs HSR(n,k) on which you tested it and it worked
> correctly.
>
>  You will get full extra credit for the 100 000 rung challenge if your
> algorithm
>  and your reasoning are correct.
>
> For the top-performing avatars I have the following challenge:
>
> I make the following claim and I look forward to see any refutations: All
> those winning avatars who tied at the top are bug-free.
> The refutation protocol is: Show me a bug in one of the winning avatars
> who tied at the top.
> If you find a bug in your top performing avatar you will get extra credit.
> It will in no way diminish the value of your avatar.
> -- Karl
>
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