3. Policies

3.1. Assessment

• 90%: Assignments (i.e., Homework plus Projects)

• 10%: Attendance

  • Three free, unexcused absences

• No tests

3.2. Assignments

• All assignments to be completed individually unless stated otherwise

• Assignment Types

  • Homework:

    • Approximately one every week, but each is announced two weeks before due dates, so you have time to ask questions

  • Projects:

    • Midterm and Final

    • Counts as two homeworks

• Homework Grading:

  • 95%: Passing code tests (partial credit)

  • 5%: Having no warnings (no partial credit)

• Due dates:

  • All submissions due at 11:59pm SGT

  • Late submissions will be penalized by subtracting 10% per day using the default Canvas calculation method.

  • Submissions late by no more than 0.15 days (i.e., 3 hours 36 minutes) according to Canvas will not be considered late.

    • For example, an assignment “due” 1 September 11:59pm will not be penalized if submitted by 2 September 3:35am.

3.3. Collaboration

• Permitted:

  • Talking about the homework problems with other students

  • Using other textbooks

  • Using the Internet to improve understanding of the problems.

• Not permitted:

  • Obtaining the answer directly from anyone or anything else in any form.