Late Work
All work that you turn in must be submitted on the Blackboard before
midnight (Central Time) the day the work is due.
I understand that from time to time you'll get overwhelmed with work, or that you may have personal
problems that will make you less productive than you'd like. That's why each student in this class
has a credit of 5 days of late work..
You can use this credit as you see fit, for good reason or no reason at all, all at once or
in pieces -- though there is no fractional credit, i.e. you cannot request 0.3 days of credit.
The only thing we ask for is that, in your Blackboard submission (in the COMMENT field) you
indicate how much of your credit you want to use.
After you've used your "late work credit", or if you don't want to use it, there is a 5% per
calendar day penalty for late work.
The way this works is that the late penalty is taken from the top, and then the TA applies other
penalties that result from grading the work.
Let's say you're N days late on an assignment that's worth X points; also, let's also assume
that the TA finds errors in your submission that accumulate to a total of Y points. Then, your mark
for the said work is going to be (X - N*0.05*X) - Y.
For example, let's assume we're talking about HW-1 where you can earn a maximum of 70 points (X=70), and that you're
three days late (N=3). Let's also assume that the TA finds errors in your submission that are worth 11 points.
Then your mark on this assignment will be (70 - 3*0.05*70) - 11 = 48.5, which will be
rounded up -- using the round-half-up rule -- to 49.
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Academic Honesty
All the work you submit must be individual, including, but not limited to, those cases when your instructor has
approved pair-programming for you; in these cases the only thing that may be identical with somebody else's is code.
Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. IIT has a strict academic honesty policy; here are the top points:
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The misrepresentation of any work submitted for credit as the product of a student’s sole
independent effort, such as using the ideas of others without attribution and other forms of plagiarism.
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The use of any unauthorized assistance in taking quizzes, tests or examinations.
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The acquisition, without permission, of tests, answer sheets, problem solutions or other
academic material when such material has been withheld from distribution by the instructor.
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Deliberate harmful obstruction of the studies, research or academic work of any member of
the IIT community.
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Making material misrepresentation in any submission to or through any office of the university to a
potential employer, professional society, meeting or organization.
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The intentional assistance of others in the violation of the standards for academic honest.
You can read the entire policy at
http://www.iit.edu/student_affairs/handbook/information_and_regulations/code_of_academic_honesty.shtml.
You should read it until you fully understand it.
A good way to test whether you understand it is to try to explain it to somebody else.
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Exams
Exams are open-book(s), open-notes, and comprehensive. You may bring with you any notes you want, however you may not
share them with anybody else during the exam.
During the exam the use of communication devices such as phones, laptops, etc. is not allowed. You may bring with you
a calculator.
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Communications
The first person you should contact for any questions related to assignments is your TA.
Please be descriptive in the subject line when you email your TA or instructor such that processing doesn't get delayed.
At the very minimum you should indicate the class and the term, followed by a brief description of what is it that
you want to communicate.
Examples of good subject lines for your email:
- cs402, Spring 2013 - question about Hw1, part (i)
- cs402, Spring 2013 - When will the grades be posted on the Blackboard?
- cs402, Spring 2013 - Do we have class next week?
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