grading
Your grade in the course is determined by homework assignments, a midterm project and a final project. There will be no make-up work or extensions to due dates except in cases of medical emergencies or other dire circumstances beyond your control. The following weights are used to compile an overall score at the end of the semester:
| Homework Average | Midterm Project | Final Project |
| 40% | 30% | 30% |
Once overall scores are computed, course grades are determined by the following scale:
| A | A- | B+ | B | B- | C+ | C | C- | D+ | D | E |
| 93-100 | 90-92 | 87-89 | 83-86 | 80-82 | 77-79 | 73-76 | 70-72 | 67-69 | 60-66 | 0-59 |
attendance
Regular attendance and active participation in class should be regarded as professional obligations. In any case, they are essential ingredients of success in this course. If you attend every class and earn a reputation for active and thoughtful participation, I will drop one or two of your lowest homework scores. But you really must earn this special consideration.academic integrity
Any attempt to mislead your professor about any aspect of your work in the course, or about your knowledge of course material, is academic dishonesty. Naturally this includes submitting work to be graded that you did not write unless you explicitly acknowledge the source, even if you have enhanced, extended, rearranged, or otherwise modified it. Any occurance of academic dishonesty will be treated according to university policies strictly and without exception, and typically results in a failing grade for the course.
Please note that helping another student to cheat is a serious violation of academic integrity. This means, among other things, that you cannot allow a classmate to copy any part of your own homework or project code.
By the way, I am not saying that you must avoid discussion with classmates about work to be graded in this course. Writing solutions together with a classmate is not allowed, even if you solve different parts of it independently, but whatever you carry in your head after a conversation is something that you have learned and may freely use as your own. Put differently, you may share ideas but not code.
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