Grading
To be eligible for a passing grade in the course, you need to
satisfactorily complete at least 60% of the lab assignments. (This
means that if you do only half of them, you fail the course, no matter
how well you do on the quizzes and exams.) If this minimum
requirement is met, your grade will be computed based on (a) the lab
assignments; (b) the quizzes and midterms; and (c) the final exam.
Each of these three components will account for approximately
one-third of the course grade.
Class Attendance
Attendance at all classes is required. While it has not been my usual
practice to take attendance or require it, I need to make an exception
in this case because of the many in-class lab exercises and the small
size of the class. As mentioned above in the late homework policy,
you need to alert me in advance about any anticipated absences for
which there is a reasonable justification.
Academic Integrity
The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences has asked all
instructors to post a link in their course syllabi to the University's
policy on academic integrity.
"Academic Integrity" is the opposite of
"cheating", and the message is: Don't cheat. It's unfair to your
fellow students and you risk some serious trouble that is far worse
than a bad grade in the course.
What constitutes cheating in this course depends upon the nature of
the task you're working on. If it's a quiz or an exam, it means any
communication with any person about the test questions (not including
questions you ask me in order to clarify something). On the lab
assignments, there really is a grey area, since I don't object to
students discussing these problems with one another and sharing
ideas. But the expectation is that after you have finished discussing,
you go off to complete the lab excercises and prepare your solutions
by yourself. Unauthorized collaboration often results in identical,
or nearly-identical , files being submitted by two different
students. The first time this occurs the students will receive both a
warning and a grade of 0 on the assignment; the second violation will
be referred to the Deans' office.
In standard programming courses, there is a big issue of students
downloading code from the Web and submitting it as their own. Because
of the unusual nature of both the software and the assignments in
CS074, this is unlikely to be much of a problem. Still, there may be
instances where you get the idea about how to complete an assigned
exercise from a Web site. Usually that's ok, but I ask that you clear
it with me first.
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