CS:APP Lab Overview
All CS:APP labs share the following features:
- Class tested at Carnegie Mellon. The authors developed and
refined the labs over a period of 4 years, on classes of 150 students.
The course gets high evaluations from the students, who typically cite
the labs as the reason they love the course.
- Automatic testing and evaluation drivers. Students develop
their solution in a C file, which they then link into a C driver
program. The driver runs their solution, checks for correctness, and
produces a quantitative evaluation of their solution. Students use
this feedback to incrementally refine their solutions.
- Solutions. Instructors are provided with complete
solutions for each Lab.
- Perl autograders. Each lab (with the exception of the
Proxy Lab) comes with a Perl autograder that runs the driver program
on each student handin file and prints an ASCII grade sheet for each
student.
- Complete lab writeups. Each lab comes with a complete
writeup (in Latex) that provides context, step by step instructions,
and an explanation of the evaluation criteria.
Last modified: Wed Mar 26 17:36:09 EST 2003