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Course Policies

Collaboration

Students are encouraged to talk to each other, to the course staff, or to anyone else about any of the assignments. Assistance must be limited to discussion of the problem and sketching general approaches to a solution. Each student must write out his or her own solutions to the homework. You should identify all collaborators in writing in your homework.

The student code of conduct is here.

Exams

• All exams are open book, open note, and open calculator.
• Laptops, tablets, and ereaders are BANNED from exams. The problem with these devices is that computers are the most flexible and capable communication devices yet devised by people. Exams are about many things, but they are very much not about external communication.
• Combining these two policies, calculators must not have any communication feature at all. Any student using a calculator that can communicate (even if such communication is not enabled) will earn an automatic zero on the exam.

Late Policy

• All labs must be submitted by 11:59pm on the day the schedule says they are due. All labs will be submited via turnin, with specific instructions in the lab writeup.
• All assignments must be submitted by 11:59pm on the day the schedule says they are due. All assignments will be submited via turnin, with specific instructions in the assignment writeup.
• You have four (4) slip days for you to use at your discretion throughout the semester. Handing in a lab any time within 24 hours of its being due costs one slip day. There is no grade penalty for using a slip day. Once your slip days are used up, it is up to the discretion of the TA and instructor as to whether a late assignment is even graded.
• In general, for every day late, an assignment (lab or homework) is marked off 20%. So a completely correct assignment received one day late will get 80 of 100 points. If you use a slip day, the assignment is not considered late. Slip days are for use at your discretion, so if you hand in an assignment two days late, you can take one slip day and one late day. Finally, I will give some credit if you hand in an assignment no matter how late, so please hand it in. If it is more than 5 days late, you will only get nominal credit, but that beats nothing in my eyes (and should in yours also).
• If you become ill: Contact the instructor and get a medical note. A medical note is required to miss an exam.

Credit

The course materials are mostly derived from Bryant and O'Hallaron, Computer Systems A programmer's perspective. Additional material comes from Professors Stephen Keckler, Mike Dahlin, Donald Fussell and Warren A. Hunt Jr.

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