General Information:

Course Work and Marking Scheme

For more information about the course schedule, please take a look at syllabus.html.

Course Policies

• Assignments are to be done individually.
• All assignments are due at the beginning of tutorial.  That means that if the assignment is to be submitted electronically (using a submit program), the deadline is 6pm sharp. Late assignments will be handled based on a system of "grace days", as follows:
  • Each student begins the term with two grace days.
  • An assignment handed in by the end of Paul Gries' office hours on the next day (4pm Wednesday) uses up one grace day.
  • It is not possible to use two grace days on one assignment.
  • No assignments are accepted after the end of office hours. If you miss that deadline, you will receive a 0.
  • Once you use two grace days, any further late assignments will receive a 0.
  Try not to use the extra slack. Not surprisingly, you will find that once you get behind, things snowball quickly.

• If you do have an emergency, you won't be penalized. An emergency is illness (documented by a physician's note) or death in the family.  Travel plans, job responsibilities, and fights with spouses are not considered emergencies.
• All electronically-submitted assignments should run on CDF. Language interpreters may vary between platforms.  Make sure you run your program on CDF before submitting it.  More information about computing resources is available at cdf.html.
• Requirements of the assignments include testing and quality of presentation. We expect your assignments to be well-tested (you need to include test cases and runs of your program, where applicable) and well-documented. Documentation includes the use of good English. At least 20% of the mark for each assignment is devoted to testing, presentation, and comments. Marking schemes for each assignment are to be posted separately.
• You are required to read the web page.  It will contain important announcements, including availability of assignments, and class-related discussion.  Assignments will be made available on the Web rather than distributed in class.  It is your responsibility to obtain them.
• If you are unable to come to office hours, please request an appointment via e-mail.
• If you missed the midterm and have a legitimate excuse, i.e. you were ill or there were an emergency in the family (documentation is required), please let the instructor know. If approved, your midterm mark will be computed based on your final exam mark and the class average.
• If you want your assignment or midterm regraded, here is the procedure to follow:  Submit your work to the person responsible for its grading (tutors or the instructor) with the written description of the part you want regraded and reasons why you feel has been misgraded. We will regrade your assignment or midterm and return it to you within a week of your request. We reserve the right to regrade the entire assignment or midterm; this may lower your grade.
• Although we try to keep our records, the Web page, the lecture notes and the assignments error-free, errors and typos are possible. If you notice an error in any of these, please notify the instructor ASAP.