CS 241 - Assessment Guidelines

09 Prove : Assessment Guidelines

Overview

This document outlines the guidelines for instructors and teaching assistants to use as they assess the assignment. It is intended to give structure and guidance to the grading process to ensure that the most important components of the assignment are highlighted, and to promote consistency across sections.

In all cases, the instructor has the latitude to deviate from this rubric on a case-by-base basis to provide the holistic assessment that, in their judgment, best matches the assignment.

Goal of Milestone Assessments

The goal of this assignment is to help students stay on track toward their future deliverable, and also to give them feedback quickly if they are headed down a bad path. With that in mind, the focus of this assessment is not to account for a few points here or there, but rather to give feedback and guidance.

Fundamental Concepts

This assignment is designed to highlight the following fundamental concepts:

Good object-oriented design
Interaction of several classes (Game, Ship, Bullet)

This milestone requires the students to work through some tricky problem solving to get the ship's angle working, as well, as the correct inertia of the ship being applied to it and the bullets it fires.

Major Things to Look For

The following should be present for this milestone:

The ship should display and move.
The ship should show inertia.
Bullets should fire from the direction the ship is pointing, and have the inertia of the ship accounted for as well.
Proper interaction being ship and bullet classes in the code.
The ship and bullets should be wrapping around the screen.
Bullet correctly overriding the advance function of the base class, to add additional logic.
Things that can be done in a base class should be.
Abstract methods should be used appropriately.

This assignment does not expect the handling of collisions.

Scoring

Given the formative nature of this assessment, the scoring is done in broad strokes as follows: