CS 111: General Information

How will my grade be computed? Do I need to be in class? What if I have to miss an exam?

Final Grades

Your final grade will be based on:

• (45%) About eight (weekly) homework assignments.
• (20%) One midterm exam.
• (35%) One final exam.

Attendance

I do not take attendance. Either class meetings are valuable to you, or they're not. But in any case, you are responsible for all material discussed and announced in class. I do not answer any requests to repeat material given in class. If you miss a class, contact other students who were there and get their notes.

Make-up exams

If you need to miss an exam and schedule a makeup exam, you must (1) have a really good reason, and (2) request the makeup at one week in advance, unless a real emergency such as a death in the family or a trip to the emergency room occurs.

Cheating and working with other people

You are encouraged to work together on homework if you are having problems. However, you must indicate clearly in your homework that you worked with someone else. Also, the code you write must not be copied. So, you may work with other people, but the code must be written by you. Cheating is not acceptable. Please don't turn in code that is similar to someone else's. A good cheater will change variable names, rearrange the code, change procedure names, and even change code so it does the same thing. By the time you have stolen the code and done all of this, you could have probably have finished most of the homework on your own.