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Question 58 (2015):

Submission reference: IN5058

In reference to Question 52 (2015), I looked at the question you'd linked, my algorithm performs much better than the last version. Is it even worth using it and referencing the code? I understand how it works and how it affects the original algorithm but I'd rather not use it if I'd get into trouble for it.

Answer 58:

I don't think the code nor the understanding of how to iterate around a circular queue, nor how such a thing works, can be claimed really. It's elementary algorithm stuff (or at least it should be), but it would always be sensible to reference where you got the idea/background from if in doubt (no-one has gotten into trouble for actually referencing properly as far as I'm aware!). But for the purposes of this assessment, the objective is to perform well in a disk-scheduling simulation — how you go about it I'm less bothered about (unless I have to look at the code).

Keywords: referencing , assess4-1516