Grades

Your grade in this course is based on four assignments, and a final project. All assignments and the project will be conducted in groups of two or three members each.

Teaching and Learning in the Age of COVID

We are committed to providing the necessary resources, time, and considerations to help everyone excel in the course. To this end, we would like to suggest the following:

  • We understand that availability may be hard
    Please let us know if you need to meet separately if you are unable to make it to office hours.
  • Please share ideas for technological solutions
    If you have ideas for additions to course infrastructure, or useful third-party tools, please share with the class!
  • If possible, please attend class, and participate in the discussions
    We all learn a lot more from discussions than just passive lectures!
  • Bandwidth permitting, please share your video
    Non-verbal cues are an important part of social communication, and seeing each other helps us all feel a little bit less isolated.
  • Disruptions are normal
    Working from home is hard, and it is completely okay to be interrupted by kids, family members, partners, and pets.
  • Talk to your classmates!
    We have scheduled a weekly Zoom meeting on Fridays (check Canvas) for open student discussions - this is an unstructured time for everyone in the class to meet others in the course, discuss topics that we have covered, and get to know each other. We invite everyone to attend this meeting, even if to just work on your assignments while online. This is not an office hour, but instructors may attend occasionally.

Academic Honesty

  • All work that you submit must entirely be your own team’s work.
  • You may discuss the algorithms for the homework with other teams, but all code and written solutions that you turn in must be your team’s alone.
  • If you referred to a resource to solve a problem, you must cite it in your writeup. Be careful when doing this: if a homework asked you to calculate X, and you cite a resource for how to do that, you will get 0 credit. If you use a resource without citing it, it will be penalized as academic dishonesty.