CS-321 Lab 2: Derived and Container Classes

This is a 2-week lab. Please refer to http://people.msoe.edu/~cs321/lab2.shtml [no longer online] for details.

Lab report (due 4 P.M., the day prior to week 4 lab)

Your lab report need not be self-contained. This means that it is not necessary to restate the entire specification in your report.

• Prepare your report in the XML format described in the Electronic Submission Guidelines.
• Include...
  • a brief overview of the assignment;
  • details of any problems you encountered;
  • suggestions for how the lab could be improved;
  • things you could not figure out how to do;
  • a list of extra features that you implemented, if any;
  • a tally of the number of new Non-comment Lines Of Code (NLOC) written for this lab assignment. Use the CLC Perl script [no longer online] on your code. It will report how many lines and statements you wrote in each source file.
    • For accurate results run it on the provided code first and then subtract those results since you did not write that code.
  • A summary of your activity log indicating how much time you spent on the assignment (following the template provided in lab2.xml).
    • Use the following phases, along with roughly 5-10 words explaining what was done during each work session.
      • Research
      • Design
      • Code
      • Debug (before you think it's working)
      • Test (after you think it's working)
      • Administrative (includes report writing)
    • If you work from 2:00 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. and are interrupted for a 10-minute phone call, the interruption time is 10 and the delta time is 80.
    • "Whom" should be "Self" except when you're consulting/discussing the project with the professor or other students.
  • Documented source code
    You may wish to use gensrc, a shell script which will produce an XML document that may be used as a starting point for your report [no longer online]. The file will include all of the source code files (provided you modify the script appropriately... edit gensrc for details on how to do this.)
• Follow the report submission requirements.
• Email this file to the instructor (durant@msoe.edu) with a subject and message body indicating that this is your CS-321 Lab 2 submission.

If you have any questions, consult the instructor.

Notes

• Monday 27 September 2004: As discussed during lab in week 2 and week 3, the Read and Write functions must be implemented for your 3 classes.