Assignments and Grades

Grades in CS147a will be based on written reports, class presentations, lab projects, quizzes and your participation in class. There will not be a final examination.

You will be assigned to present papers from current literature and submit written reports pertaining to the assigned papers.

The lab will consist of two projects. All the programming will be done in Java or C so fluency in Java or C (or C++) is a must. The lab will be run in Unix environment. You will have to defend your projects.

Since an important part of CS147a is discussion of current literature, your class participation will influence your grade significantly -- so significantly that we hesitate to try to assign weights to the individual components such as summaries and projects. Everything is important; We will assign your final grade based on the personal assessment of what you got out of the course, integrating all the methods of evaluation we can think of.

Collaboration is neither permitted on the reports nor on the projects except collaboration with team members on a team project. You are responsible for protecting your homework directories so that others cannot view them or copy them. Failure to do so constitutes a violation of academic integrity. To protect a unix directory called "homework", "chmod og-rwx homework".