[Ordweb-pos407] RE: [POS407Su03] Redress process?

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Colin:
 My apologies if my language seemed over the top: old Marine habits never
die I suppose.

 Just wanted to clarify where I/we were lacking in understanding so I/we
do not make the same mistake twice. Thank you very much for taking the
time to reply with detail and explanation: I appreciate it!

-poulh

> Poul,
>
> I am somewhat surprised to receive an email from you with the subject
> "redress process?"  While I am always happy to explain the basis of my
> grading, I found the tenor of your email vaguely offensive.  I daresay
> you didn't intend it that way, but that is how it came across to me.
>
> Having said that, let me address your questions one by one:
>
> 1)       As far as the final project is concerned, your program created
> a new deck for every game played, and the cards continued to show after
> they should have been removed.  Both these topics were discussed in
> class.  Surely a score of 9 out of 10 is entirely reasonable (perhaps
> even generous) under the circumstances?
>
> 2)       For the Pizza project, you submitted no test samples
> whatsoever, so I am unable to tell if your application works or not.  I
> thought I made it quite clear in class that test samples were to be
> included.  Certainly, all the other students submitted test samples.
>
> 3)       For the "exceptions" project, you also turned in no test
> samples.  In addition, you caught the exception in the constructor
> itself, rather than in the code that calls the constructor, which is
> where it belongs.
>
> I hope this answers your questions to your satisfaction, but if not,
> please send me another email...  Colin
>
>