According to a study, students in computer courses learn much more by building large-scale exercises instead of many small-scale test programs, which give fragmented knowledge contrary to solid understanding of the language.

Exercise I: (08%) Showing a one-player tic-tac-toe game and
Exercise II: (12%) Playing a tic-tac-toe game.

• The exercises are individual exercises instead of team exercises.


• Have to use to MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) assembly language to develop the exercises.


• Use the MARS (MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator) to test your exercises. The MARS will also be used by the instructor to grade exercises.


• To submit an exercise, upload the source code (with a name and exercise number, but no documentation needed) to the Blackboard at “COVID-19 Exams, Homeworks, & Programming Exercises.” You may check its status at Grade information later.


• A set of test data will be used to test the exercises of all students.


• The weights of the two exercises are 08% and 12% of the final grade, respectively.


• The computers in the Labs (Leonard 110 and 112) have MARS installed.


• Absolutely no extra points will be given after grading.