Updated Foxsays with Lab 3 README

Foxsays/README.md

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 ## Acknowledgments
 
 Problem from Kattis are used under their educational license.
+
+# Lab 3: Empirical Analysis with Profiling
+
+This lab is intended to be started in class, where additional background
+information may be provided.
+
+## Requirements
+
+You will need to use a UNIX based system can run shell scripts. **STU** would be
+a good resource.
+
+## Goal
+
+Utilize run-time profilers to identify poorly performing sections of a program
+and then potential these areas.
+
+## Process
+
+### Part 1
+
+Utilize the two programs from your "What does the Fox Say" homework. Run each of
+these with the profiling information from the lecture slides
+([cs412_03_EmpiricalAnalysis.pdf](https://canvas.jmu.edu/courses/2112008/files/178177075?wrap=1))
+and gather/analyze this information. For the dict version of the program,
+identify and try and to improve the portions of your program that take up the
+most time.
+
+### Part 2
+
+Using the large examples files from "What does the Fox Say" homework and the
+**split**, **wc**, **and head** UNIX commands, create input files of size 200K,
+400K, 600K, 800K. To find out more about these UNIX commands, you can use Google
+or the man pages from stu.
+
+Write a shell script that performs this work and then runs the dict version of
+your program capturing the execution time using the **time** UNIX command.
+Create a plot of this run time where the Y axis is the run time and the X axis
+is the input size. The shell script only needs to run your work and produce the
+plots (it does not need to do the file manipulation, you can do that on your
+own).
+
+An example python script for creating the plot is here:
+[line_plot.py](./line_plot.py)
+
+## Deliverables
+
+- A PDF (described below)
+- Python script to create your plot
+- Shell script to run your test cases
+
+> Eclypse's Note: Did not need to submit a Shell script
+
+Create a single PDF that contains the following information with two separate
+sections (one for your list and one for your _dict_ versions of the HW 1). Each
+section must showcase the results/output of 2 _cProfile_ runs. Then create a 3rd
+section within the PDF that discusses the slowest portions of the _dict_
+program. This discussion must include steps you tried in order to improve the
+run time performance of your program.
+
+For the 4th and final section, show the plot of your run times and discuss what
+type of growth rate is experienced by your program and what portion of the
+program you believe is responsible for this.