If your input is "Korea", should you get "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" or "Republic of Korea"? If your input is "of", what result will you get? I thought all our tests about country names would be exactly the same as in the dataset. Testing ...

Hi Michael, we are about to have lunch now. I suppose you have a different lunchtime than us. Makes sense? Fair enough? sigh

Are you joking? Giving tips 3 days after the due day of assignment 2?

Michael's probably busy watching the Eurovision Grand Final.

Hi Michael, According to the given definition in the assignment, "A word-pair is two or more simple words separated by hyphens with no spaces around them." and "A contraction is a simple word followed by an apostrophe, followed by other alphabetics." "p...

Isn't this more work to do? While identifying the elements (word, comma, etc.), it is possible to count them at the same time. I don't understand what the benefit of implementing tokens is.

Hi Michael, The requirement of code efficiency is pretty vague to me. What is considered inefficient? For sure reading the same file multiple times is. But if you read the file once and then perform similar operations on it multiple times (like greppi...

Hi everyone, I get 321 words for sample2, and 688 words for Children of the Bush sample, while in Michael's examples, the words are 320 and 684 respectively. I checked my result by copying these samples into a text editing software with word counting ...

I just realised that I was looking at an older version of the assignment requirement (I printed it out). Cheers

Hi Michael, I just noticed that "dot(full-stop)" is included in the requirement of the profile, but is not shown in the samples. I'm not sure if this is a "problem", but I'd like to compare my result with the one from the samples. Cheers

Hi Michael, Do you mean that Assignment 1 will be marked by machine instead of real people? That is different from what you said before.

Thanks for doing what our lecturer - Michael was supposed to do, really appreciate it.

Hi Michael, I just want to know what the average mark for the mid-semester test is. Cheers