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Grading Policy

Your final score in the course will be determined using the following algorithm

Homework: 30% (Your lowest HW grade will be dropped)
Midterm Exam (in class, Wednesday March 24): 25%
Final Exam: 40%
Class attendance and participation: 5%


Final grades will be determined on the basis of your final score and standing in the class. Unfortunately, we won't permit you to submit any extra work to make up for missed assignments or poor performance on examinations. I will gladly write a Course Performance Report (CPR) for anyone who requests one. See the Registrar's grading system page for details

 

Collaboration policy


We encourage collaboration on homework and computer assignments: you can learn a lot from working with a group.  This means that you are permitted to discuss homework problems and computer assignments with classmates, and are permitted to seek help from other students if you run into difficulties.  However, material submitted for grading should represent the work of its author. Any work done in collaboration should be clearly marked as such.  Needless to say, it is not acceptable to copy the work of other students, and it is not acceptable for two students to submit identical copies of any part of an assignment.  

See the Academic Honor Code of Brown University for further clarification.

 

Grade change requests

If you find that your grades have been added incorrectly, or you would like a grade on your homework, examination or computer assignment reconsidered, you should prepare a written statement explaining why you think your grade is incorrect and turn it in to the instructor.

Grade change requests received later than one week after the graded assignment was returned to you will not be considered.

Homework

Homework problems will be assigned approximately weekly.

These will be assigned and posted on or before Wednesday each week, and will be due one or two weeks later, normally on Wednesdays. Graded assignments will usually be returned to you one week after submission.

Assignments must be turned in in class on the due date. Late homework may not be accepted.

You may be excused from handing in an assignment medical reasons or with a Dean's advisement.  Submit your request  before the homework is due.

I know it's hard, but I strongly suggest that you start on the homework well before they are due. At the very least, read each assignment as soon as you get it, even if you will not work on it for another day or so.  That way, you will have a sense of how long the work might take, and you may begin to think about the problems involved. Computer problems especially tend to take longer than you might think.  I love to help people who have begun work early!