Subject: lab recommendations

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Please be sure to pass on all of the salient points below
in your labs next week.

> I'll look into this, but in the great scheme of things I don't think
> it has much impact.  Your final grade is 10% lab and with 13 labs
> one lab contributes only about 0.8 points difference in your
> final average between making a 0 and a 100 on the lab.
>
> Regardless you should draw two lessons from this:
> (1) the time limit
> (2) NEVER_EVER change a program that does something
> correctly WITHOUT making a backup copy of it.   Any time
> you change a program the chances are probably 50/50 that
> you broke it (that's my percentage -- yours might be worse!)
>
> Finally,  the lab submission system lets you submit as many
> times as you wish --- so anytime you get something you think
> is better than a 0 or the last thing you submitted you may over
> write it by submitting again.
>
> But thank you for bringing this up.  I have asked the lab
> ta's to make sure all of this is clear to everyone.
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Denton wrote: > I don't know if you can help me out or
> not, but I didn't know that our labs were timed. I was helping
> others around me as I was working because they were struggling.
> I had my program drawing Lithuania and Germany but ended up
> making some changes to fix an error so that it would compile
> correctly when asked to draw France. Time ran out before I could
> make my program compile again, and I am worried that my grade
> will suffer because of this. I took the time this afternoon to
> rewrite the entire program, and I have it working perfectly.
> Maybe you can help me out?