Howdy all. I'm the instructor this course.
First, thanks for recognizing that answering all of the questions doesn't really help the student.
Second, the assignment was posted a couple of weeks ago and is due June 4th so the student has plenty of time.
Third, if you are the student and are ready this, Brett (that's the TA for everyone else) was due to go over the homework in discussion Friday at 12pm.
Fourth, I have no problem asking general questions on a list like this (after all, when you got out into the real world, how else are you going to learn?), but try and answer questions on your own first.
And finally, if anyone else is reading this and is now curious about the context, here's the course web page:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/classes/S08.176A/
-Kevin