I am very sure that the instructors and TAs have been working very hard to come up with fun and useful homeworks. (Also consider that most TA's are taking 5 classes themselves.)
I know not being able to solve this homework as fast as the previous ones is frustrating to many of us. There is just a lot more to learn for this homework. It's not like LZW, or Huffman, where you only need one single algorithm with the data structure already selected for you. We need to learn html (some of us might be unfamiliar or rusty), FSM, graph theory, and many other issues, like choosing the right data structures for our implementations. I think HW5 is a very pratical homework telling us how complicated real life problems can be.
I am struggling, too, to figure out all the things we need to consider, so that we can build a nice index structure (our own database) for easy and fast web search. But I really think we should be patient with each other. And also, we should be patient with ourselves by spending possibly a lot more time for this homework.
A small encouragement will go a long way. We all need understanding and encouragement. Let's try not to criticize each other, as if someone is not trying. Posting more constructive suggestions instead of criticism will be more beneficial to all of us.
Dr. Lee, I am afraid that this homework might need more than two weeks to finish for many students. |