If you have any questions or require any clarifications of these course policies, please ask Prof. Huang.
The following list documents the changes and clarifications to these policies.
I encourage you to discuss readings and assignments and to prepare for examinations with others. However, I expect that any assignment or examination that you turn in to be your own work --- the product of your understanding of the course material and your own efforts in completing the assignment or examination.
More specifically, it is inappropriate for a student in this class to share code with anyone else.
The Rensselaer Handbook of Student Rights and Responsibilities defines several types of academic dishonesty, all of which are applicable to this class. Students found in violation of academic dishonesty policies may receive a failing grade for this course.
Please contact the instructor if there is any question about academic (dis)honesty.
Late work places an additional burden on the teaching staff and is unfair to those students who turn in their work on time.
Unless you make prior arrangements with the instructor, assignments are due at the beginning of class (10:00am) on the day they are due. All assignments are scheduled to be turned in on Thursdays. A late assignment turned in by midnight Friday night will be assessed a 7.5% penalty. After midnight Friday night, late assignments will be assessed a 15% penalty and will only be accepted for one week after the assignment is due. For assignments which have a written part and a programming part, the late policy will apply separately to each part.
It's difficult to write policies that encourage the desired behaviors. In this particular case, I want to encourage students to come to class on Thursday mornings (instead of skipping class after staying up late to finish the assignment.) To that end, I make the following offer on a trial basis: you can receive an automatic extension until midnight on Thursday night by signing up in class. The late penalty deadlines remain the same.
Please note that a two week assignment will generally not be a "one night" assignment and manage your time accordingly.
You are responsible for knowing all material covered in class. If you should miss a class, please contact a classmate first to learn what was covered that day. We will attempt to keep the syllabus on the course home page up to date.
Since there are no make-up quizzes, you must be in class to take the quizzes.
If you disagree with the grading on an assignment or the quizzes, you should appeal to the TA first. Such appeals must be made within two weeks after the assignment is returned.