Final Grades Released

The final exam grades have been released. The mean, median, st. dev on the exam are 118, 119, and 20, respectively, out of 173 points. Have a nice break.

Office Hours Today (Thursday December 10th)

Hi all! I will be holding office hours today from 3pm-4pm in my normal office, and JJ will be holding office hours from 4pm-5pm. Good Luck on the rest of your exams! --Adam

Practice final exam answers

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~211/webiso/exampleExams/practice_final_answers.pdf

Practice Final Exam

A practice final exam is available https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~211/webiso/exampleExams/practice_final.pdf

Note that the exam was selected because of the content it covers... but have fun studying.

Turn in chess_final_handin

If you haven't submitted the final code that you used on the chess server, please submit that to chess_final_handin as soon as possible. (Your performance against the bots and in the 211 pool has already been recorded.) Only one person in your group needs to submit this.

Office hrs canceled this week

I will not be holding my office hours this week.

Grading Statistics

Hi all! We have compiled statistics for the quizzes and homeworks so far. Keep in mind that the statistics that involve the pirates assignment are not complete, as we are not done grading it yet. You can find the statistics here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~211/webiso/resources/stats.pdf --Adam

Many chess announcements

This is a long announcement; please read it carefully.

1. By Thursday, December 3 at 11:59pm, you need to hand in the unittested classes (TestedEvaluator, TestedAlphaBetaFixedDepth, TestedEndgameEvaluator) and the theory questions. DO NOT submit any revised searchers or evaluators; as long as you are passing the FrontDesk tests, you are done with this portion of the assignment. You can use up to 2 late days to extend this deadline to December 5 at 11:59pm.

2. Your performance against the bots and in the 211 pool will not be recorded until December 5, 11:59pm, regardless of however many late days you have.

3. The 211 pool should be reset soon.

4. By Saturday, December 5 at 11:59pm, please zip up your entire chess folder and hand it in to the "chess_final_handin" assignment on FrontDesk so we can look at the code you used on the chess server.