General:

In addition to meeting your objectives, you are expected to make "reasonable" decisions about various implementation details. In addition, we are picky about how things are marked. Listed on this and the other Secret Marking pages are things that we explicitly check and deduct point for. The lists are not complete - especially creative students may discover new ways to make unreasonable decisions.

-10 for the following:

If the objective list is not signed (or no objective list)
If checksum doesn't match the files in directory (no checksum)
If any source code is timestamped after start of class

-1 for the following:

no manual
no README or README timestamped after start of class
Makefile timestamped after start of class
if no executable but executable makes without problems or if executable is timestamped after start of class

-0.5 for the following:

If debugging messages are printed
unreasonable scaling, rotation, or translation factors
Rendering screen unnecessarily (e.g. during mouse movements)
user id should be on cover page
no cover page
put section|prof's name on cover page, if applicable
put objective list, manual, and checksum in order
put files in the right place - executable files and scripts should be under A#
bad manual
- manual should NOT be in a conversational style
- specify extra feature clearly
- don't put down unnecessary information

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