Comp 110/L Grading

The same grade will be given for both the lecture and laboratory portions of the course.  An absolute grading system will be used, where 90% is required for an A, 80% for a B, 70% for a C, 60% for a D, and anything below 60% is failing.  Pluses and minuses will be given for grades within 3 percentage points of the dividing marks.  For example, a final total which is 80% or more but less than 83% would correspond to a letter grade of B-, a total of 77% or more but less than 80% would correspond to a C+, etc.  The final grade will be based on the following:

 

                                    Quizzes (11)                                     10%

Midterm Exams (2)                          20%

                                    Final Exam                                       20%

                                    Lab Programming Projects            40%

                                    Homework                                         10%

                                   

Late work will be accepted without penalty only if some compelling reason is provided (preferably in advance) justifying the lateness.  Without such a justifiable excuse, late work will be penalized 5% for each calendar day that it is late.

 

Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty

 

Plagiarism (intentionally or knowingly representing the words, ideas, or work of another as one’s own) or any other form of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated.  Students who are guilty of such dishonesty will receive no credit for the given assignment or exam and will not be allowed the opportunity to redo the work in question.

 

Quizzes & Exams

 

Quizzes will consist of several multiple choice questions on the reading material.  There will be a quiz most class meetings.  The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.  The quizzes will be given during the lab sessions.  The exams may be open book or closed book, or a combination of the two.

 

Lab Programming Projects

 

Lab projects are an important part of the course and will be given to apply and reinforce the material discussed in the lectures.  Discussion and collaboration with other class members on individual assignments is permitted, and even encouraged, to the extent that said collaboration is a fair and equitable exchange of ideas.  That is, one individual should not be doing all the work and sharing it with others.  It is permissible to ask other students for help, but it is not permissible to copy the results of others.  If several students collectively solve a problem, each should write up the results in his or her own words.

 

Updated: August 23, 2009