[CSC 330] Prepping for the final

[Andrew J. Pounds]

The final exam will be administered in the classroom via CANVAS and 
ANVIL.  You will be creating a repo for the final where you will be 
placing your code pieces and you will be answering questions in CANVAS.  
You will also, obviosly, have access to cobra.

Basically the final is going to ask you to make some changes to the code 
that you submitted for the COLLATZ project to answer a different 
question than the one posed in the project.  A few of you made the 
obvious mistake that I told you to avoid - you tried to allocate an 
array to hold a billion large integers.  Good luck with that.  In most 
cases those programs crashed immediately.

By far the most common mistake happened in Fortran and C++.  Many of you 
did not change the integer size and went with the default (which has a 
max of 2147483647) for all of your integer variables.  This died or hung 
(ran forever).  The other common mistake was changing only the size for 
the colatz value of the collatz funtion -- and not any of the 
intermediate variables.

I tried to indicate in my notes where these failures occurred. Running 
your code with an interval 1..1000000 should exposed issues.

You will want to correct all of these mistake before the final on 
Monday.  If you have other questions about the collatz grading please 
reach out via e-mail.


-- 
*Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.*
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University, Macon, GA, 31207 (478) 301-5627 /
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