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 UWA week 21 (1st semester, week 12) ↓
SVG not supported 9:40pm Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

Hi, Are we able to use newlines at the end of our stderr message? I am aware that we should for the stdout outputs but I would like to make sure for stderr, given the automated marking system. Thank you


SVG not supported 8:09pm Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

Yes, I understand these now, thanks again


SVG not supported 1:31pm Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

I also have a follow up question regarding the Vigenere cipher, if a character does not fall within the acceptable encrypting range and we have to copy it over, do we still advance in our progression along the key or do we not change our position unt...


SVG not supported 12:53pm Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

Hi, When we are validating the key input for the cli function, the spec only mentions that we must check if it is an appropriate int for Caesar encryption and decryption. It does not state about checking if Vigenere is given an appropriate string wher...


SVG not supported 11:28am Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

Yes, thank you


SVG not supported 9:55am Wed 22nd May, ANONYMOUS

The project brief mentions 'you may also write whatever helper functions you wish.' I was wondering if we were required to write up Doxygen-processable comments for these helper functions or if it is only needed for the cli function.


 UWA week 18 (1st semester, week 9) ↓
SVG not supported 1:43pm Fri 3rd May, ANONYMOUS

Hi again, Yes, sorry for not clarifying, the section that you mentioned is what I was referring to. My understanding is that we should encrypt and decrypt according to those range low and range high values, incorporating wraparound. I have since had a...


SVG not supported 10:54am Fri 3rd May, ANONYMOUS

Hi, Are we able to assume that the given range does not apply to the output of an encrypt function call or do we need to fit the output of the function to match this range? For example, if encrypting from 'A' to 'Z', can the cipher text go outside thes...


 UWA week 10 (1st semester, week 2) ↓
SVG not supported 9:41am Tue 5th Mar, ANONYMOUS

Hi, Will newer Linux versions such as those in current versions of WSL be okay to use for the labs? The version is 5.10.16.3 rather than the 5.4 specified in lab sheets. Thanks

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