News and Updates:

• Here are the final results of the Othello tournament. The final round was quite exciting, with 3rd place coming down to the wire, decided in the last 2 games. Congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated :).
• Here are the results for round 1 of the Othello tournament. Come to ryon 102 tomorrow at 11 to see the final round!
• Here is a sample strategy that is very smart (read: it won the tournament last semester!).
  • isairsPlayer.jar
  • Test your code against it! Directions:
    • create a directory called "isairs" in your default package directory
    • in the "isairs" directory, unjar the file. Many files should be created.
    • run the tournament code, and in the "add player" text field, type "isairs.TightStrategy" and hit enter
    • the new strategy should now appear on the drop lists
• Here is a sample strategy that is not too smart, but not entirely stupid either (read: your professors wrote it!).
  • comp212prof.zip
  • Test your code against it! Directions:
    • unzip the code into your default package directory. A package called comp212prof should be created.
    • run the tournament code, and in the "add player" text field, type "comp212prof.SBW_DXN_strategy<Enter>". The field should clear.
    • The new strategy should now appear on the drop lists.
• THE FINAL EXAM IS HERE!!
  • You will have 5 hours to complete the exam once you have started it.
  • You have unlimited preparation time however, so review the Recursive Descent Parsing laboratory and make sure you understand it.
  • Do not read the exam until you are fully prepared to take the exam! Click here to read the exam.
• Here is the link to exam 3 of the fall of 2001. I will not post the solutions to this exam.
• The rules for the Othello tournament have been posted.
• There seems to be some difficulty for people to find new partners for project #4. To help alleviate the problem, for project #4, you are allowed to work with a partner from previous projects.
• Please send Dr. Nguyen the name of your team partners for project #3 (tournament tree) and for project #4 as well.
• Project 4 (Games 4 Two) is up. It's due Friday, December 06, 2002 at 11:59 PM.
• Make sure to always compile your code using the command line javac. It seems there may be a bug in DrJava that allows an error to not show up during compilation. See the newsgroup for more details.
• Grades for the semester so far are now available. Please check these against your records and contact Dr. Nguyen if there is a discrepancy.
• To submit homework after the deadline, when you've been given a personal extension, use project name extensions for the electronic submission.
• Note: All UML diagrams must be exported to pngs or bmps to be graded. The StructureBuilder .sbs project file is not acceptable and very often cannot be recreated.
• Code for the list structure and algorithms can be found at: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~comp212/02-fall/dataStructures/
• If you are auditing COMP 212, please do not submit homeworks. We will not grade them.