Fri, 16 April 2021, 19:54

My students,

I have found out that some of you put a lot of extra effort on Lab 4 
to keep  the number of states small enough so you would be able to complete 
Lab 5 using no more than 64 states.

If that is you, it makes sense that I recognize that accomplishment as part 
of your record.  So, if you complete Lab 5 and do not go beyond the limit of 
64 states as stated in the original Lab assignments, you will earn extra 
credit which will be part of your record for the wohle semester.

I also know that many of you will not be able to keep the total number of
states to the 64 limit.  Rather than have you spend time redo Lab 4 so you 
are using fewer states, and then not being able to finish Lab 5, I decided 
to relax the restriction of keeping the total to 64 states in hopes of 
enabling some of you to thereby be able to complete Lab 5 successfully.

My bottom line: extra credit if you get Labs 4 and 5 done and not need more 
than 64 states.  If you can't, spend your time getting Lab 5 done, regardless 
how many states it takes.  Much better to get 100% on Lab 5, done with more 
than 64 states, than to try to do it 64 states and end up with a 0.

OK?
YNP



On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 06:11:54PM -0500, Yale N. Patt wrote:
> My students:
> 
> My TAs and I are concerned that moving the date of Exam 2 ends up giving you
> only four days from Exam 2 to the due date of Lab 5.  So, we are extending
> the deadline for Lab 5 from April 25 to April 29.  Please be sure you have
> Lab 4 working properly before tackling Lab 5.  Please take advantage of my
> TAs and me to make sure Lab 4 is solid.
> 
> Also, some of you have used up all the remaining states to get Lab 4 done.
> To allow you to not have to redo lab 4, we are relaxing the restriction to
> keep Lab 5 to 64 states.  If you need more than 64 states, you are free to
> increase the number of states to what you need.  
> 
> Good luck getting Lab 5 done by April 29.  ...and good luck getting Lab 6
> done also.
> 
> Yale Patt
>