Are the messages in second.c printed on a separate line?
Can we change the comments in first.c and second.c?
How do I know if my e-mail message made it to
its destination?
In second.c, should we use five printfs or a loop?
How come I received e-mail saying I didn't turn
anything in, but I know I turned in this assignment?
Are the messages in second.c printed
on a separate line?
Yes, all of the messages should be on separate lines.
Can we change the comments in first.c and
second.c?
Yes. The idea is to copy welcome.c into first.c
and then make changes to it (and likewise to copy
first.c into second.c), so
it's a good idea to modify the comments to reflect the changes in these
programs.
How do I know if my e-mail message made it to its
destination?
Unfortunately, most systems give you no indication that the message you send actually reached its destination or that it was ever read. The only way you know the mail message made it is if its receipient send you a reply.
As far as this class goes, we do our best to reply to messages quickly, so you don't have sleepless nights worrying about whether your message actually made it to us. The one exception is the message you are required to send as part of Assignment #1. Because of the volume of messages we'll get (around 100 or so), we save those messages as they come in and when we have a large batch of them we then run a program that automatically sends an acknowledgement that the message was received.
In second.c, should we use five
printfs or a loop?
Either way is fine. In general, when we want to do something a bunch of times, we want to use a loop, but since we haven't talked about loops in class yet (soon though!), it's also fine to solve the problem with five printfs.
As a general rule, if we haven't talked about a feature in class or if it isn't mentioned to the readings associated with each lecture in the lecture overviews, you can safely assume that you won't need to use that feature to solve the problem.
One reason this may have occurred is that you sent the e-mail
for
Part 1
from an account on a machine other than Wiliki. If you did this,
the grading software will not be able to associated your turned in
files with your Wiliki account. This has now been rectified by editing
the accounts database by hand, but those of you who did this will
suffer a small penalty on this assignment.