Assignment 4 Announcements

Below are announcements and answers to recently asked questions about Assignment 4. If you have a question, please check this page first to see if it has already been answered; if it hasn't, e-mail the instructor or the course newsgroup.

• Cover page is now available
• Miscellaneous formatting and page length requirements
• Graphical user interface counts as a 10% enhancement

Friday, November 17

Cover page is now available

Download the PostScript or PDF version, print it out, and tape it to the front of your submission envelope.

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Miscellaneous formatting and page length requirements

Your report should be at most 6 pages. The paragraph font should be 12-point, single-spaced. Please use a conventional font like Times or Helvetica.

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Graphical user interface counts as a 10% enhancement

The graphical user interface has to be usable on one of the ECF lab machines (Linux or Windows). GTK, a GUI building toolkit for Linux, is available on the ECF machines; you can get started with this tutorial.

Note that if you do provide a GUI for your game, you still have to provide a text-based user interface. If you design your software well enough, then your core modules won't have to change much, if at all, when you add the graphical user interface.