Talk:SE250:lab-5:jpar277
Comments from John Hamer
- Overview: I appreciate reading your comments. These reflective essays are a big help for me in finding out how the class is coping.
- The labs are intended to present you with things you don't understand straight away. If everything was laid out, it would reduce to a mechanical exercise with no opportunity for learning. Striking the right balance is the challenge (this lab was a lot harder last year!)
- "used a sample size of 1000 because anything less is not enough and anything greater is getting a bit over the top." — that's not an adequate justification. You need to provide evidence to back up this claim. What do "not enough" and "over the top" actually mean?
- "Base256 low 0.00000 0.01% 97.000 27.32% undefined" — this is worth commenting on, that base256 has no entropy (all the values it returns are the same!)
- Just reporting the results is not enough. The lab was about coming up with an ordered list of best-to-worst. You haven't done that.