Digital Communications in the Modern World Course

Guidelines

Course Policy and Grading

Course grade is composed 60% of exercises, 40% of final exam. Final grade of all the exercises together will not exceed 100.

There will be 3 practical exercises and two theoretical exercises. 2 of the practical exercise can be done in Java, the other in C++.

All the exercises can be done in pairs except Ex1.

All exercises submission is mandatory. Student which will get less than 55 in the exercises will not be able to take the exam.

Late submission result in 3 points penalty per day. (Not including Friday/ Saturday).

The official moderated news group is local.course.com1.ta. All messages posted to this group are filtered by the TAs before they are actually posted (with the TA comments). Use this newsgroup to

Ask TAs and 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.com1.stud. This news group is for free usage among yourselves, e.g. to search for partners or 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 regulary 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.

Individual Work Policy

Students in this course are allowed (and encouraged!) to submit practical homework assignments in PAIRS. At the same time, each pair must work on their own. The first exercise, Ex1, must be done individually.

How to submit

Exercises are to be submitted electronically. For each project create a tar file called ex#.tar (i.e. ex1.tar). Submit it using the course admin system that can be reached from the administratives 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 5 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(s) of the author(s), comma seperated (and nothing else).
The personal details of the author(s).
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.
Answer to exercise theoretical questions (if any)

You can use the sample README as template. Note: Any mistake in creating the README will cost 5 points penalty, since your are failing automatic testing, That includes writing BOTH your names and logins for those who did in a pair.