Administration and Regulations

• Course Staff
• Time & Place
• Course Requirements
• Submission Guidelines
• Exemptions and Late Submissions
• Appeals (Irurim)
• Solve The Exercises On Your Own!

 

Course Staff

Time and Place

• Lectures:
1. Monday, 12:00 - 14:00, Mathematics 2
2. Tuesday, 12:00 - 14:00, Mathematics 2

• Exercises:

    1. Monday, 16:00 - 18:00, Shprinzak 115
    2. Monday, 18:00 - 20:00, Sprinzak 115
    3. Thursday, 12:00 - 14:00, Sprinzak 215
    4. Thursday, 14:00 - 16:00, Sprinzak 215

Course Requirments

• The assignments of this course include several programming exercises, about ten, and a final exam.
• The relative weights of the exercises and the final exam grades in calculating the final grade is as follows:
• 35%  exercises grade,
• 65% final exam grade.
• You must submit all the  exercises,unless exempted from some,  in order to be able to participate in the final exam. In order to pass the course you must recive a passing grade in both the final exam and the exercises.
• The releative weight of each exercise will be decided at the end of the course.

Submission Guidelines

• Please take a minute and read this section carefully. A small effort on your behalf will (hopefully) make grading your projects easier. Since some of the grading process is automated we urge you to follow the instructions, otherwise our programs will not work!
• Failure to follow the guidelines in this section will result in loss of points.
• Each exercise includes one or more sections, whereas each section consists of a programming project.
• The exercise descriptions appear in the assignments page.

1. For each exercise you should submit the the sources electronically using the submit page (this sends your exercise through the    network to our computer). Please see the electronic submission instructions for details. Each source file should begin with a submission block. This block identifies the file and student. The submission block must be in the exact following form (cut and paste, and don't forget to replace the details with the correct details):

 /*
  * Exercise No.         : 1.1
  * File Name            : FooBar.java
  * Name (First Last)    : Intro Csm
  * Student No.          : 0000000-00
  * Login                : introcsm
  * Email                : introcsm@pob.huji.ac.il
  */
1. For each exercise you should submit the printouts in a plastic envelope to the course box (Ross -2). You should print all the classes included in your exercise (NOT including classes provided by us). If required, you should also hand in printouts of the API documentation of the public classes you define (not relevant for first exercises).


The Do's and Dont's of a printout:

• Do not close the envelope or staple it in a manner that will make openning it difficult. Better off, leave it open.
• Print each file on a separate paper. Do not concatenate the files!
• Make sure the printout is readable.
• Make sure the printed lines do not fall off the right edge of the paper.
• Make sure you hand in printouts with correct indentation. Your indentation might look good on the screen but get spoild on the printout.
• Staple the printout in whatever way that looks reasonable to you.

Exemptions and Late Submissions

Generaly no late submissions are accepted. In case of miluim, sickness or other justified reasons, the TA's may approve exemption and/or late submission. Approval of late submission will be given rarely as we intend to publish the TA solution.
If you have a request for exemption/late submission, please approach the TA's during their reception hours or in class.

Appeals (Irurim)

Appeals on exercise grades may be submitted up to two weeks after grades are published. To submit an appeal you must write down what exactly is the grievance and submit your claims with the original printouts of the exercise to one of the TA's (during exercise sessions). The appeal will be rechecked by the bodek that originaly checked the exercise. If you are not satisfied by the result then you will resubmit it to one of the TA's for a final answer.

• Late appeals (submitted more than two weeks after grade publishing) will not be dealt with!
• Submitting an appeal means the exercise will be re-evaluated. This means your grade may also drop!

Solve The Exercise By Your Own

As the well known hebrew proverb says, "one cannot learn swimming through mail". This is true also for programming. Learning to program involves spending hours in front of the computer and cursing it!

This means that we do not expect that any of you will become a good programmer, or even get a hint of what programming is, without experiencing the glow of the monitor and the touch of the keyboard. In particular, you must solve the exercises by your own, without the help of others.

You may disscuss the solutions of exercises verbally. However, you may not exchange program code segments in any case. You may not show the code, or part of the code of your solution to other students. You may not  write it down for them on paper, or give it to them via any media.

Copying part or an whole exercise from another student (=cheating) is regarded a serious offense. If you do not intend to cheat, then you do not need to read the following:

To discourage those few who do intend to cheat, we will record backups of all the exercises you submit. From time to time we will run an automated cheating detection program upon these backups and keep the right to treat cheating retroactively. This means that even if an exercise of yours was graded, you can be informed in any later time of the semester that you are suspected for cheating in this exercise and it will be treated as if it was detected before grading. To eliminate any doubts, we make no distinction between the two (or more) sides of the cheating. If we suspect that Bob and Alice had copied an exercise from one another, we see no way they could have done this without each other cooperation.