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Exercises and Grading Policy
You are required to do each
exercise by yourself. There are three exercises, all of which will be
included in your final grade.
Grading Policy:
Home Assignments - 60%.
Course exam - 40%.
Total of 100%.
Course Newsgroups
Communications relating to this
course will use the SClass Course News Groups. You can read the news groups
using Netscape's News Reader, or programs such as rn,
nn, xrn, etc.
The official course news group is
local.course.sclass.ta.
All messages posted to this group are filtered by the course administrators
before they are actually posted. Use this newsgroup to
Post Announcements of interest to the class, including exercises, class scheduling and exam information.
Ask the lecturer questions about the class or
exercise material of common interest to all students.
In addition, there is a students' non-moderated news
group: local.course.sclass.stud.
This news group is for course announcements and for free usage among yourselves, e.g. to share your thoughts about the solutions and useful techniques. Note that
the course administrators make no commitment whatsoever to read the
messages posted in this newsgroup. Do not share code or other exercise
solutions in this newsgroup.
In order to make TA/lecturer - student communication
reliable and efficient, please comply to the following rules:
The moderated news group should be kept small do
not abuse it. In other words, try to think for yourself before you post
anything;
You should regularly read messages published in the
moderated news group. Any message that is posted in this news group will be
considered known by all, and will not be repeated elsewhere. To stress this
point, in case when, for example, a clear guideline concerning the exercise
implementation is published in the news group, anyone who does not comply
with the guideline will loose points.
The teaching assistants will make their best effort to
answer your questions within two days. The maximum delay you should expect
is no more than three days. If after three days, you have not received an
answer, please raise the question at the class or during the reception
hours.
It is so important that we will say it twice: Never ever
try to contact TAs neither by our personal e-mail addresses, nor outside
the reception hours.
Never ever try to contact TAs neither by our personal e-mail addresses, nor
outside the reception hours.
You may write email to the TA directly (using the
address sclass AT cs)
only to handle special personal situations, e.g. to report about miluim.
Late submission policy
2(x+1), where x is
the number of days past the submission deadline. Note that after 5 days
there is no point in submitting! Start early!!
Individual Work Policy
Students in this course are
required to submit homework assignments individualy.
How to submit
Exercises are to be submitted
electronically until Ross closing time in the deadline date. Before submitting test your exercise on the University computers because we will check them there. For each exercise create a tar file called ex#.tar (i.e. ex1.tar). Submit it using the
course admin system that can be reached from the administrative page. Any
mistake in creating the tar, adding unneeded files, missing files (like
README), README with wrong format, doing jar instead tar, lower/upper case
mistakes etc. will result in 10 points penalty since these mistakes
will cause the automatic tests to fail.
README submission
The README file should include
the following details:
In the first line should be the login of the
author
The personal details of the author.
The name of the exercise.
A list of the submitted files, with a one line
description for each file.
Any remarks you have about special cases, implementations,
additional features or anything else you think the checker should know.
Note: Any mistake in
creating the README will cost 10 points penalty
Appeals
Submitting an appeal means the exercise will be re-evaluated. This means your grade may also drop!
A student that still wishes to
submit an appeal must write the appeal within one week after the
graded homework was returned. Appeals have to be submitted with the following
format, an appeal that will not comply with this format will be automatically
deleted!
- Subject: SCLASS: Appeal ExN
where 'N' denotes the number of the exercise you appeal.
- Your name, ID and login in
the first lines.
- A list of error codes you
appeal. (ERRLIST: errN...)
- An error source
(ERRSRC:...) stated clearly and shortly
- Your reason (CLAIM:...) for dismissal of these errors, stated
briefly and clearly!
- Original printout or text.
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