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Office hours will be Mondays 5-7pm (ECEB 4034), Wednesdays 5-7pm (ECEB 5034), Thursdays 6-8pm (ECEB 5034), and Fridays 6-8pm (ECEB 5034)

Homework

MPs can be done in groups of up to three people. Three-unit students must work with three-unit students and four-unit students must work with four-unit students. Four-unit students will have to solve extra problems on every assignment.

Extra credit: (1) Extra credit sections will be available on every MP. (2) Three-unit students can get extra credit for doing four-unit problems (the raw point value will be discounted by 50%).

Exams

Short answer format, closed book, closed notes, no electronic devices.

Grading

Grade cutoffs are not guaranteed. In fall semester 2017 the grade cutoffs were 99.00 A+, 91.00 A, 90.00 A-, 89.00 B+, 81.00 B, 77.00 B-, 75.00 C+, 71.00 C, 70.00 C-, 69.00 D+, 56.00 D, 45.00 D-.

Course Policies

Academic integrity: You are encouraged to discuss assignments with each other, but coding and writing of reports must be done individually or in your designated groups. You are also encouraged to conduct this discussion online, but do not post code on the class discussion group, either for the purpose of debugging or demonstrating a possible solution. Feel free to search the Web for tips or code snippets, provided this does not make the assignment trivial and all external sources are explicitly acknowledged in the report. At the first instance of cheating (copying from other students or unacknowledged sources on the Web), a grade of zero will be given for the respective assignment or test. At the second instance, you will automatically receive an F for the entire course.

Late penalty on assignments: For every day that your assignment is late, your score is multiplied by 0.75. The penalty saturates after four days, that is, you can still get up to about 32% of the original points by turning in the assignment at all. However, if you choose to turn in an assignment that is more than four days late, alert the course staff by email to make sure it gets graded.

Only one submission per group: You may submit each assignment as often as you wish, but only one submission per group will be graded. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will grade your last submission before the deadline. If you wish us to grade a section that was submitted after the deadline, then a late penalty will apply to the entire assignment.

Extension requests on assignments: Extensions of up to 72 hours will be granted for any assignment if you are ill (documented by a note from your doctor) or have a life-threatening emergency (documented by a note from the emergency dean, a court document, or some comparable documentation). If you are part of a group, extension is granted only for the part of the project that is affected by the illness or emergency; this is the only reason for which separate submission of sub-projects is ever accepted.

Requests for conflict exams: This course will have conflict midterm and final exams that will be announced well in advance, together with directions on how to sign up for them (including sign-up deadlines, which will always be 96 hours before the scheduled exam start time). To request a conflict, you must follow the directions. Conflict exam requests with less than 96 hours advance notice will only be granted for documented unforeseeable emergencies, e.g., unexpected illness, death, or incarceration.

Regrade requests: Regrade requests will only be accepted within a week after grades are released for an assignment and within 24 hours after grades are released on an exam. Note that the course staff reserves the right to regrade not only the items questioned by the student, but also the entire assignment or test. This may result in your overall score actually going down!

Incomplete requests: Requests for an incomplete in the course will only be accepted through the last day of class and must be accompanied by documentation of your special circumstances.