Editing Comms IV Assignment B (section)

==Expectations==

The emphasis in this assignment is to attempt a working simulation and does not require extensive use of Matlab functions or fancy programming.  However, if you use “high level” Matlab functions, make sure you understand precisely what they do and set the parameters to appropriate values.  It is often more straightforward to use simple functions.

Obviously a good working simulation will attract marks. But at the end of the day, I’m looking for a well structured methodology and evidence that you had an exploratory attitude to the problem. I don’t want to just see a neat solution; I want to see you take “ownership” of the assignment by describing your exploratory steps to arriving at your final code. For example, you may want make intermediate plots to convince yourself individual parts of your code are working, you may want to plot relevant formulas and functions to test how they behave. You may want to generate some trial plots that test how the random number generator behaves or how phase unwrapping behaves (for example) and so on. You are encouraged to put your investigations and “sanity check” plots into your report to show you really owned this assignment.

If you mess up the assignment it is still possible to get reasonable marks, if you diligently show the steps you took to gain ownership and the steps you took to explore the problem space.