For the students that take the class for three hours credit, the grade is composed of the following three components:
We reserve the right to lower your overall grade if at the end of the semester your performance in any of these three areas is below 20% of the maximal number of points that can be obtained.
For the students that take the class for four hours credit, the grade is composed of four components:
The first three components are identical for all students. Again, we reserve the right to lower your overall grade if we judge your project to be significantly below what we expect students to achieve.
There will be six assignments, which will consist of programming tasks and written exercises. You will have two weeks to complete each assignment. Your solutions (including source code and documentation for the programming tasks) must be submitted via our Compass site. For written assignments, we will only accept PDFs produced by LaTeX, using the template we provide. Scanned-in versions of handwritten solutions will not be accepted. Regrading requests must be made within one week after the graded homework is returned.
Late policy Assignments must be submitted to Compass by the time and date indicated on the assignment. Every student is allowed a total of two late days for the entire semester. Once these late hours are exhausted, any assignment turned in late will be penalized at the rate of 20% per late day. Under no circumstances will an assignment be accepted more than three days after its due date. Do let us know if there are exceptional situations where this lenient policy is not satisfactory.
These will be closed book exams. The final exam will focus on material covered in the second half of the class. Regrading requests must be made immediately after grades are released. Previous exams will be made available in due course.
You will be expected to complete a programming-based research project. We will expect you to submit a PDF copy of a written report, following a template provided by us.
To insure that disability-related concerns are properly addressed from the beginning, students with disabilities who require assistance to participate in this class (including exam accommodations) are asked to see me as soon as possible.
Unless specifically announced, you are expected to do each homework on your own (this includes any code that is not explicitly provided with the assignments). Feel free to discuss concepts with your classmates, but there must be no interactions about solutions. You may consult the web but the work handed in must be entirely your own.
The penalty for cheating on any assignment is straightforward. On the first occurrence, you will receive a zero for the assignment and your course grade will be reduced by one full letter grade. A second occurrence will result in course failure.
If you are taking the course for 4 hours credit, your research project must also be your own work. The report must be written in your own words. You must properly cite all sources that have been consulted, including papers, text books, websites and existing software.
More information on academic integrity and plagiarism can be found on the library's web site.