Latest News
I will post here announcements for the course, including announcements about posts deeper in the site hierarchy (for example, for important Q/A posts about specific assignments).
- [May 15] --- I have posted the grades that are going into eCampus. I have given temporary "Incomplete" grades to the people who have not yet submitted their final project (I will wait until the end of the week, but not beyond). I also gave a temporary "Incomplete" to the people at the bottom of the ranks to give me more time to think their case over. Here again, I will finalize the grades by the end of the week or before.
- [May 14] --- Another grade update (a few lab regrades). I
am still waiting for some final projects. An explanation about lab
grades:
- For those who had done all labs but one (typically Lab11) I gave them for the missing lab the same grade as their average for all the other labs.
- For those who did all the labs, I replaced their lowest lab grade by their second highest in all other labs as a little bonus (most of these people did not need it anyway).
- [May 14] --- Regarding the grades, the A-B-C-D cutoffs are likely to move a bit in the coming hours.
- [May 14] --- Oops, I forgot to post the updated lists of lab and quiz grades. I was editing my web pages but I was not posting them. The current lists are near-final. I still have a couple of missing lab grades (M.C. and A.S. for Lab 09). I am also waiting for some of you to post their final project in their submit folder as requested.
- [May 13] --- Final project grades. Here is how I graded: First I ignored al the grade sheets that were all As. Then for each category I ignored the ttwo lowest and the two highest grades (basically, to take an ice skating analogy, I ignore the American judge and the Russian judge). With that I got your grades for al projects. I applied an adjustment of -5 to +5 when I thought that the public grade was out of whack with the real difficulty of the project (in fact, I did very few of these). Finally, I applied a penalty to people who had little to no difference between the midpoint and the final versions. In one case the code was identical, byte-for-byte. So far I have kept the penalty to -10, but this could increase as I rethink it.
- [May 08] --- Presentations tomorrow. We wil be in Rm 109 of Tyler Hall (2nd floor on the Math side of the building). Presentations will run from 11:30 AM through 2:30 PM. You have to attend all presentations to be graded. Presentations will be about 7 minutes per presenter (10 minutes for a group of 2), including 1 minute for questions. No PowerPoint slides: You just show how your program works and how your code is organized. No report either. Bring your laptop if you have one, or put your project on a flash drive and get another student to agree to let you use their laptop.
- [May 08] --- I will order pizzas at the beginning of the presentations and they should arrive about midpoint. If you have particular topings that you want, let me know (I am definitely going to order a couple of vegetarian pizzas).
- [May 08] --- Pankaj has given me all grades for labs 1 through 10, including re-grades. I will post them in a couple of hours or so.
- [Apr. 28] --- Deadlines:
- May 01, 6 PM: final deadline for submitting a lab assignment (with late penalty),
- May 03, 12 AM: deadline for summitting the midpoint version of your final project. This version must compile but should only demonstrate partial functionality. Some of you have already shown me versions of their projects that would qualify for this, so send them now because if what you show on May 09 is only a cleaned up version of your midpoint, your grade will suffer accordingly. If you fail to submit this midpoint version then you will get a grade of 0 for your final project, no matter how good it turns out to be.
- [Apr. 28] --- More information regarding the submission of
the midpoint version. Here is what should happen:
- You put in your CSC211 submit folder a copy of your midpoint version in a folder named Midpoint_<your name>. This folder must contain all the source code, media, and other input files necessary to make and run your midpoint version.
- You send me an email to tell me the midpoint version is in (before midnight, Saturday May 03).
- I send you acknowledgement #1 that I have received your email (as soon as I read it).
- I send you acknowledgement #2 that I have successfully downloaded, compiled, and run your midpoint version. This one should reach you no later than Sunday, May 04 (midnight).
