Yesterday was deadline day for CS118 Coursework 1 (Java). I got mine finished on Sunday night, and submitted with the nifty online system.

The coursework centred around the Warwick Maze environment, which provides a graphical maze and the hooks needed to interact with it. Our part was to create a series of increasingly complex controller modules for the robot.

The marking method was refreshingly personal - once I showed up at my allotted slot, I sat down with one of the postgrad tutors, and we went through each exercise in the coursework. He looked through my code; I told him why I’d done certain things the way I had, and how the complicated bits worked. Then he ticked off various criteria on his marking sheet. It took about 5 minutes in total, and I ended up with 135/135 :-D. This after getting soaked in the rain, and having major PC trouble (which will be covered in another post :-)), it was an upshot to a day that started poorly.