Policies

Coursework

Course work consists of:

Mark distribution

The course mark (C) is calculated as:

C = round(0.3*A + 0.2*M + 0.5*F)

else

C = round(min(A, M, F)) [Fail] 

end

The same course mark calculation is used for all exam periods. Course assignments are turned in only once, before the first exam period.

Ask questions in class. It always makes lectures (and life) more interesting. Beyond lectures, you can and should use each teaching assistant's weekly office hours to ask questions about your assignments. Office hours are especially appropriate if you need to use a terminal to show/explain what goes wrong in your assignment.

Make sure that you subscribe to the course mailing list h y 2 5 5 – l i s t @ c s d . u o c . g r. You can subscribe to the mailing list by sending mail to majordomo@csd.uoc.gr with the text "subscribe hy255-list" as the mail body. You may e-mail questions to the course mailing list at h y 2 5 5 – l i s t @ c s d . u o c . g r, especially if your questions are helpful to other students (and usually they are). You are encouraged to respond to questions of your colleagues posted to the course mailing list, without however, violating any rules of academic contact. If your question is specific to your work, or if you must reveal portions of your code to express your question adequately, then you should e-mail it to one of the teaching assistants or all of them at h y 2 5 5 @ c s d . u o c . g r.

Collaboration

Programming, like composition, is an individual creative process. Individuals must reach their own understanding of the problem and discover a path to its solution. During this time, discussions with friends are encouraged. However, when the time comes to write the code that solves the problem, such discussions are no longer appropriate -- the program must be your own work (although you may ask teaching assistants for help in debugging). If you have a question about how to use some feature of UNIX, etc., then you can certainly ask either your friends or the teaching assistants.

Do not, under any circumstances, copy another person's program. Writing code for use by another or using another's code in any form is academic fraud and will be dealt with harshly. You are also responsible for ensuring that the code you write for the assignments is not readable by others. You can use the chmod command to change the protection of your files (type "man chmod" for more information).

Due Dates & Late Work

Assignments are due at 23:59:59 on the date specified. Each assignment has to be turned in by the specified deadline. There will be a penalty of 10% of the assignment mark for each day of delay in submitting an assignment. Exceptions to these rules will be made only under exceptional circumstances, and then only with an appropriate written excuse. Problems with transportation or other unexpected situations do not justify any type of extensions. The only cases that will be considered are days that the University is officially closed due to unexpected conditions.

Assignment Marking - Code Review

Assignments are marked both for functional correctness and design issues. Program readability and student's understanding of the subject are important aspects of the design procedure:

Each student will be examined and marked individually in each assignment, as follows:

To submit an assignment, use "submit" (type "man submit" for more information). Simply login to a Debian/Linux system (e.g. karpouzi.csd.uoc.gr, milo.csd.uoc.gr, fraoula.csd.uoc.gr, ...) and type "submit ask#@hy255 my_folder/" to submit the files of the assignment in "my_folder/" (e.g. submit ask1@hy255 FirstExercise/ to submit assignment number 1).

The files submitted should be all the source files specified by the assignment and necessary to compile and run the assignment. You should also include a brief README file that explains any implementation decisions or reasonable assumptions that you have made, and how you have tested your program. Do not include object or executable files in your assignment submissions, since they only take space.

A submission is copied into a specific (protected) directory, it is given the name of the user that does the submission, and it is time-stamped with the submission time. Assignments can be submitted up to 10 times. A resubmission is not copied over previous submissions for the same assignment. Late submissions (or resubmissions) will be handled according to the course policies.

All assignments are to be done on the CSD linux workstations. For all the assignments you should use the gcc compiler (type "man gcc" for more help), unless otherwise stated in the assignment specification. These are the default utilities used when you type gcc on the linux systems (typing "gcc -v" and "make -v" will give you version information). Documentation and reference cards on the necessary tools can be found on the web and under the course’s Links directory entry.