Spring 1998
(1) Take-home assignments, about 60% of final grade.
(2) Midterm exam (one hour and a half), about 15%.
(3) End-of-term exam (two hours), about 25%.
No "incomplete" grade ("I" grade) will be given.
About 10 assignments for the entire semester.
Points will be taken off from assignments returned after the due date.
I encourage students to collaborate in studying and preparing for exams, but I hold each one entirely responsible for producing solutions of weekly assignments alone and in isolation from others' work. What you submit should be entirely your original work, except for what you specifically credit to other sources. For example, copying without attribution any part of someone else's program is plagiarism, even if you modify it and even if the source is a textbook.
The University takes acts of cheating and plagiarism very seriously: First time violators are routinely suspended for a semester.
You may contest a grade on any of your assignments by bringing it to my attention. Do not take your assignment with the contested grade to any of the graders, nor to any of the teaching assistants. If you decide to appeal your grade, I will go over your entire assignment from the beginning, ignoring all points taken off by the grader, and your final grade on this assignment will be the one I give (even if it is lower than the original one given by the grader).
3 hours of lecture + 1 hour discussion (lab) section + 8 hours of work on your own (review lecture notes and textbook, do programming exercises) --- for a total of 12 hours per week.
Performance in the course is entirely based on (1), (2) and (3) in the grading policy, and not on class attendance. However, past experience shows that students performing best are those attending classes regularly.
Assaf Kfoury
Created: 1998.01.05
Modified: 1996.01.13