Format guidelines for Written Homework

Homeworks for CS 173 must meet the following guidelines. They are intended to help you develop good mathematical style and to allow us to grade homeworks in a sensible manner. If you don't make a good-faith attempt to follow them, we reserve the right to take off lots of points or (in extreme case) give you a zero for the homework.

1. All problems should be stapled together.
2. Write your discussion section time (e.g. M12, T10) in the top righthand corner of the top sheet, nice and big.
3. Make sure the following information is clearly visible, and legible, near the top of the first sheet:
   • First line: your name
   • Your netid (in case your name is hard to read)
   • Homework number and problem number
   • Names or netids of people you collaborated with
4. Your homework should be neat and legible. The writing should be dark enough to be easily read. If you can't write legibly or would like to earn a few bonus points and prepare yourself for later classes, learn to use a mathematical formatting package (preferably LaTeX).

We want both your name and netid to provide redundancy when it's hard to read what you wrote, especially at the start of term when we aren't familiar with your names or handwriting.