If you have not already done so, begin by reading the README for the Assignments Directory.
The assignments currently available in the repository include:
- assignments/1: The student works through the entire tutorial covering an introduction to combinatorial optimization, the bin packing problem, and constructive heuristics. After working their way through the tutorial, they then work through additional exercises for each of the constructive heuristics for bin packing, and answer some follow-up questions related to the problem instances that they worked through.
- assignments/2: This is essentially identical to assignments/1, but utilizes the Session Log feature of the Interactive Bin Packing application to make it easy for course instructors to validate student's work. One of the advantages for instructors of this variation of the assignment is that each student uses a different problem instance, significantly reducing the chance that students will share work with each other. Despite each student using a different problem instance in this assignment, the Session Log feature has students save a Session Log that the instructor can then use to verify that they have completed the required elements, including verifying that the student's work corresponds to correct application of the various constructive heuristics for that student's designated problem instance.