Individual Effort:

No team participation is really encouraged in the case of the homeworks or the labs.

Late Submission:

Late Submissions are possible, yet they will be penalized.
One day late: 15% penalty
Two days late: 30% penalty
Three days late: 50% penalty
Four or more days late: 100% penalty.

If source code (to enhance) from the WWW is used, it should be acknowledged and a priori permission should be sought. Taking source code from a peer or the WWW or a book to complete a lab makes you culpable.

Note: The university may use, or require students to submit assignments to, an automated service that will check for plagiarism (i.e. cheating by copying).

Grading Criteria:
Grading of software will be based on the following:

• 80%: Correctness and adherence to assignment specification.
• 10%: Readability and structure of code, use of comments, identation, etc.
• 5%: Efficiency and speed (only an issue if its very inefficient)
• 5%: Adherence to lab procedures (submitting, naming conventions, etc)

Suggestion:
Don't get behind in the lab assignments. Always start early. Probably the main reason for students doing poorly in this course is getting behind in the labs and never recovering. Be forwarned, some labs depend partially on previous labs. Design and implement in a top down, modular fashion. Get something working that has the skeleton structure of what you need and then add features to it. Each time you add a feature, test it and make sure everything is still working. It can be tough to debug graphics programs if all you know is that the output is wrong and you're not sure any one module is working.

Programming assignments must be electronically submitted before class of the due date, i.e. 09:44:59 is the absolute last timestamp for on-time submissions. Submission at 09:45:00 or after are late.

1. Lab 1: (10%) Due Oct 29 2013; 9:45
2. Lab 2: (10%) Due Nov 26 2013; 9:45
3. Lab 3: (10%) Due Dec 17 2013; 9:45
4. Lab 4: (20%) Due Jan 21 2013; 9:45

Course Reflections (Reaktionsblatt): I would like to get good, critical feedback on the lectures and the course, so I know what we are doing wrong and work towards improving things. Hence, there will be the mechanism of leaving your comments to me and the TAs. The format is free-form. Everyone can see them. Everyone (in the course) will be able to read your comments. There should be two parts to the feedback: (a) feedback on a specific lecture, no later than 5 days after the lecture and (b) general comments about the course. You can pick what lecture you want to give feedback on. However, you should give feedback on one lecture in the first half of the course (between Oct 8--Nov 12) and you should give feedback to one lecture toward the end of the course (Nov 19--Jan 21). While you are welcome to do more than 2 reflection sheets, the two most detailed ones will be taken into account for the grade. You get at most 5% per reflection sheet.