Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 13:40:01 -0500
From: brock
Subject: a little more on the exam

This is a bit of verification of what I said in class about
the exam.

The take home exam will be distributed at 5:00 pm on Monday,
December 11.  Information for retrieving the exam will
be sent via email.

The exam will consist of several (~3) problems similar to those
you have performed on the homework assignments.

It is my intention to make the exam so that people who have done
well on the assignments will be able to complete the exam in
three hours.  However, that's a goal, and I suspect you all
know that faculty have trouble with these sorts of estimates!
I'm afraid those of you who are less experienced workstations users
may need to budget a bit more time.

Almost all questions will involve modification of programs
and/or files that will be provided by me.  You all will
start with similar, but not identical, files.

Your answers should be stored in a subdirectory csci/373/takehome
of your home directory.  This directory should be protected against
access by other users.  Create and protect this directory by
typing the following commands:
	mkdir -p ~/csci/373/takehome
	chmod go-rx ~/csci/373/takehome

At 5:50 pm on Tuesday, the exam will be collected when I run
a shell script to copy all of the take home directories.
Because another class is using the 004 lab at 6:00 this is
a firm deadline!

We have 17 students in 373.  There are 16 workstations in 004.
If everyone tries to complete the exam at the last moment,
we'll have a problem!  To avoid this situation, I'm going
to make one more rule  "No one is allowed to use the workstations
more than four hours between 12:00 and 5:50 on Tuesday".
As I mentioned in class, we will keep 004 open after hours
on Monday.

At 6:00 pm, we will gather in the usual class room for a brief
short answer exam which will count one-fourth of the final exam
grade.  Don't worry much about studying for this.  It'll be
the kind of questions you'll have no trouble if you've been
attending class.  I'll even allow you to choose to answer X
out of Y questions, where X < Y.

I want you to treat this take home exam like a real inclass exam.
In particular, you should not ask anyone, except me, questions
about the exam!  Consequently, there should be no talking in
004 when the exam is in-progress.




Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:54:08 -0500
From: brock
Subject: To start the take home final

Run the following command
	/usr/local/csci/373/takehome