Project 2 Design

Due Date

11:59pm, Thursday Oct 2nd, 2003
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

Your design assignment is broken down into two parts.

Function prototypes and function header comments for every function you plan to implement for this project. Function header comments must meet course coding standards. The description should be include enough detail so that the function's purpose is clear to the typical user.
This part of the design file should be suitable for use in the header file(s) for your project.
A list of tests you plan to perform to verify that your program works properly.
Consider such issues as
- Ill-formed command line
- The number of outcomes in the data file
- The possible outcome sequences represented in the data file

A template for your design document, p2design.txt, is provided in Mr. Frey's public directory. Copy that file /afs/umbc.edu/users/d/e/dennis/pub/CMSC202/p2/p2design.txt to your local directory and fill in the necessary information. Submit your modified p2design.txt file to complete this assignment.

Grading

You p2design.txt file will count as 10% of your Project 2 grade (part of the Correctness). 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 p2design.txt file will be compared to the header file or files that you submit when Project 2 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.