Evaluation Criteria:
Final grades will be based on students' performance on assignments, a project, and an exam. These components will be weighted as follows:
Participation:
Students will receive participation credit for doing any one of the following: (1) asking questions in class (either in-person or through live chat),
(2) answering questions in class (either in-person or through live chat), or (3) answering other students' questions on Ed Discussion. Students who contribute significantly
in class and on Ed will receive extra credit. Students can also earn extra
credit by completing “Challenge questions” on assignments.
Late Submissions:
We will allow you 3 late days total for all assignments over the quarter. A late day is used in
discrete units and allows you to submit an assignment anywhere between 1 second
and 24 hours late. You may choose to use multiple late days on the same assignment.
If you exceed your three late days, assignments will incur a 10% penalty
per additional late day.
You may not use late days when submitting your project.
(Exceptions to these policies will be considered under
extenuating circumstances, such as medical or family
emergencies — please contact the staff if such circumstances
arise by emailing the staff list.)
Collaboration Policies and the Honor Code:
In general, we encourage students to work together and to
ask each other questions — this is a great way to learn!
That said, we expect all work you submit to be your own.
This means that you are welcome to discuss high-level
strategies, but you should write up your solutions to
problem set questions and programming exercises independently.
You should not look directly at another student's
solution to a problem set question (text, code, or otherwise)
when working on your solution. Copying code, text, or any material directly from a chatbot (for example ChatGPT or Bard) is strictly prohibited.
You can consult web resources and published papers or textbooks, but
your answers must be phrased in your own words, and you must cite any paraphrases or direct quotations.
Deviating from these guidelines (in letter or in spirit)
will constitute an
Honor Code Violation and will be
reported as such.
If you have issues that you cannot resolve through
high-level discussions, please post privately to Ed Discussion and/or come to Office Hours. The staff will be glad to help you figure out what's going on! For bugs related to software packages we’re using, please check with the TAs (by posting to Ed Discussion or coming to their office hours). Note that questions about bugs that are not specific to your solution can and should be posted publicly to Ed Discussion.
Ed Discussion:
We'll use Ed Discussion as a
forum for questions about material and assignments. It's a place where you can ask questions of the
instructors and your fellow classmates. Additionally, all announcements will be made via
Ed Discussion.
When posting public questions on
Ed Discussion, please abide by the
class Collaboration Policies (i.e. don't post
your exact solution to a problem). If you want to ask a
question about your specific solution, please post privately.
Exam:
The final exam will be on Thursday, December 14, 2023 from 12:15-3:15pm at Bishop Auditorium.