Project 1 Design

Due Date

Before midnight, Sunday 2/10/02
No late designs accepted

Objective

The objective of this assignment is to make sure that you begin thinking about your project in a serious way early. This will not only give you experience doing design work, but will help you anticipate the number of hours that you'll need to set aside to be able to complete the project.

The Assignment

Design Project 1 using top down design. As this is your first time working with recursion, you may design your project assuming that you are allowed to use iteration if you wish. However, you MUST indicate which functions will end up being recursive.

What to Turn In

You are to write the function prototypes for each of the functions you plan to have in your project. You must include the names of the parameters in the prototypes, not just their types. Each prototype should have a full function header comment above it as shown in the C++ Coding Standards.

In addition to the prototypes, you should include two or three paragraphs explaining your design. This explanation should be sufficient enough for a grader to draw a hierarchy diagram of function calls from it.

This design document is to be a plain text file created using a text editor. Do NOT use a word processor to create this document. The file MUST be called design1.txt

Grading

You design1.txt file will count as 10% of your Project 1 grade. If this file is not submitted by its due date, or if you submit a new version after its due date, you will lose all 10 points.

Your design1.txt file will be compared to the header file or files that you submit when Project 1 is due. Minor changes to the design are allowed. A minor change might be the addition of another parameter to a function's parameter list, or the addition of another function or two.

If there are major changes between the design document and the header files that are part of the final project, you will lose 5 points. This would indicate that you didn't give sufficient thought to your design before beginning the implementation.

Submitting the Design File

To submit your design document, type the following at the Linux prompt. Note that the project name starts with uppercase 'P'.

submit cs202_01 Proj1 design1.txt

To verify that your design document was submitted, type the following command at the Linux prompt. It will show all files that you submitted in a format similar to the Linux 'ls' command.

submitls cs202_01 Proj1

Last Modifed: Monday, 04-Feb-2002 11:15:03 EST