CS 14 - Fall 2003

CS 14 - Lab 6

This lab will be shortened due to a lab practical this week.

The Assignment

7 points Find a partner. The two of you have 75 minutes to develop one of the following:

A program that compiles and works correctly but is as confusing as possible (you are excused from the normal rules of coding style for this). Your program should do some "useful" task (at least as useful as the mystery program from lab 2.)
A program that compiles, but has a run-time error that is difficult to debug. Your program should have some useful task that it looks like it could perform if not for that error.

At the end of 75 minutes, your TA will assign an "opposing team" to each set of partners. Teams should exchange code (using either pine or scp), and then set about fixing the new code. (Either format it or remove the run-time error or both.)

Full credit will be awarded to all participants, so long as both partners are involved in appropriate tasks the entire period. Instant messaging, checking the scores for the Laker game, or doing your Japanese homework will result in a penalty for both partners. .4 points: Write a text file called "pine.txt" that discusses how to send and receive email messages with attachments in pine.

.4 points: Write a text file called "scp.txt" that discusses how to transfer files using scp.

.4 points: Send a message to the CS 14 mailing list (cs14@lists.cs.ucr.edu) describing the trickiest obstacle you found in fixing the code you were provided. (This will probably need to be several paragraphs.) Save a copy of this message into your turnin directory as "email.txt".