There will be five PSAs assigned this term. For each you will have about 2 weeks to complete the PSA. You must complete PSAs by yourself . Please read about the rules for this in the Integrity Policy.

Links to PSA READMEs

• PSA1
  • PSA1A: Due Tuesday, April 7, 11:59pm
  • PSA1B: Due Thursday, April 9, 11:59pm
• PSA2 due Thursday, April 23, 11:59pm
  • Grading rubric
• PSA3
  • PSA3A: Due Thursday, April 30, 11:59pm
  • PSA3B: Due Thursday, May 7, 11:59pm
• PSA4
  • IN CLASS: Due Thursday, May 14, turn in paper copy of code and output from reading in and printing out the dictionary.txt file.
  • PSA4: Due Thursday, May 21, 11:59pm
• PSA5: Critters! Prizes awarded at the tournament!
  • PSA5: Due Tuesday, June 2, 11:59pm

PSAas are your opportunity to test for yourself whether you are really understanding the computational concepts we are learning in this course. By giving you the chance to solve problems and create solutions with Java code that requires you to use these concepts -- you'll get to build your own understanding of the power of computation.

Your main goal in completing a PSA is to make sure that, in the end, you COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND what your program is doing and why. Just managing to get a program that compiles and seems to give the right output won't do. You need to understand WHY the program does what it does -- and how you might change it to do something slightly different.