Email
Email is the preferred way to contact the instructor and the teaching assistants for personal issues.
Feel free to email the instructor regarding any course related personal issues.
For non-personal questions please post on the forum so other students can also benefit from them.
Please use only the email addresses provided in the course info section.
Please use descriptive subject lines for your emails and include "CSC373",
e.g. "CSC373 prerequisite waiver request" or "CSC373 special consideration request for test".
We may miss emails without subject line starting with "CSC373".
Please send email only from your official University of Toronto email address when contacting us if you want to receive a reply, this is required by regulations, we cannot reply to any other email address.
We will try to answer your emails in 2 working days but it may take
longer.
You should not rely on getting same-day answers (particularly near assignment deadlines).
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Accessing Restricted Files
If needed use csc373 and summer2016 to access the files on this website.
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Final Exam Policy
You will be required to get at least 40% on the final exam to pass this course.
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Collaboration
In this course, we will be allowing collaborations between students on the assignments.
That is, up to two students to a group may complete the assigned homework together and submit a single shared copy.
If you choose to collaborate with another student we strongly recommend that you work on the problems together, rather than just partition the work between the two of you.
Beyond the obvious, immediate loss of only really understanding half of the questions on the assignment, by working together on questions you will get the feel for working in a group of people on a single problem, which is a valuable skill.
That being said, this is just a suggestion, and will not be enforced in any way (and any attempt at enforcing it would just be silly and painful for all of us).
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Late or Missed Work policy
Late assignments will not be accepted.
Assignments are due on Fridays at 10:00PM. If we do not receive your assignment by or before 10:00PM, it will not be marked.
You can resubmit your assignment as many times as you want, as long as it is before 10:00PM, so if you improve your assignment you can resubmit it. We are going to read only your last submission. If you have more than one submission, and the last one is past the deadline, we will grade the last submission before 10:00PM.
If you miss a homework deadline because of a medical or serious personal emergency, you must fill out the Special Consideration Form and provide it to the instructor as soon as possible.
In case of a medical emergency, you must also submit the UofT Verification of Student Illness or Injury, completed and signed by your physician.
Please check Frequently Asked Questions on UofT Health Services.
If you are emailing the forms the subject line of your email must start with "CSC373 special consideration request". If we judge your reason for missing the deadline to be valid, we will use the average mark you achieved in other homeworks to compute your mark for the missed homework.
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Missed test policy
If you miss a test due to a medical or other serious personal emergency, get in touch with your instructor immediately, and fill out the
Special Consideration Form.
In case of a medical emergency, you must also submit the UofT Verification of Student Illness or Injury, completed and signed by your physician. Please check Frequently Asked Questions on UofT Health Services.
If you are emailing the forms the subject line of your email must start with "CSC373 special consideration request". There will be no make-up test, but if we consider your reason for missing the test to be valid, we will use your final examination mark to compute your mark for the missed midterm test.
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Tutorial attendance
Attendance in tutorials is as mandatory as attendance in lectures. A formal attendance is not taken in either.
However, there will be new material that is presented only in tutorials and not discussed in the lectures for which you are responsible and
in which you may be tested in homeworks or exams.
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Prerequisite
The prerequisite requirement is strictly enforced in this course.
If you do not satisfy it, you must contact the instructor and submit a petition for a waiver within the first week of class. If you want to request a waiver you must fill out the Prerequisite Waiver Request Form.
We will grant a waiver only in exceptional cases where we have enough confidence based on the information you have provided that
you will not suffer in this course because of not completing the required prerequisite.
In addition, you should provided good reasons for why you have not taken the prerequisites before taking this course.
Please submit one email explaining all relevant information, the decisions are final, we will not consider any information provided later.
Submitting a request doesn't mean that you will receive a waiver.
If you are making any plans, you should do so assuming that your request is going to be rejected.
If you receive a waiver it will be your responsibility to learn any material needed from the prerequisite.
Throughout the course the assumption will be that students are familiar with material from the prerequisite.
After we receive a request we have to wait for the undergraduate office to sends us the files for students requiring a waiver.
We will check them in a week and let you know the result.
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Accessibility
The University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations or have any accessibility concerns,
please visit Accessibility Services as soon as possible to make any required arrangements.
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Remark request policy (for assignments/test)
You can ask for remarking if you believe there is a mistake in the marking.
If your request concerns a simple addition error or similar kind of errors, see the instructor.
For any other kind of remarking request, you must submit your request in written form. To submit a remark request,
please print and fill the Remark Request Form, attach it to your paper, and give it to the instructor.
In the explanation section of the form, specify the question and the part you are requesting a remarking, and explain briefly and clearly which part of marking you disagree with and why.
You should submit your remark request at most one week (7 days) after the papers are returned. Remark requests after this date will not be accepted. We will look at all remark request, however please try to submit a remark request only when you believe the remarking will result in a significant increase your mark, e.g. please don't submit a remark request if the total increase that can result from your remark request is less than 1% of your final grade.
Reminder:
A remarking request can cause the overall mark to stay the same, increase or decrease:
we may re-examine every question in the paper and if new mistakes are found they can also change the marking up or down accordingly.
Please submit a remarking request only if:
(a) you have read and completely understood our posted solution set, and
(b) you still think that your solution is correct and was mistakenly marked as incorrect.
We rarely if ever accept remarking requests of the type "yes, my solution is not correct, but I think you took off too many marks for this mistake":
The marking scheme was decided and applied as uniformly as possible to all students.
If you believe a marking scheme is too harsh, it is still fair as long as it is consistently applied,
we will adjust the marks (by adding points to everyone) if the marks are unexpectedly low because of marking scheme being harsh.