Rules

• Reach me through my official U.M. email, not through blackboard.
• Always make sure your name appears, and say which class you are in.

• This is an in-person class. Attendance is required. Watching by Zoom does not count.
• Attendance will be taken on random dates, Unexcused absences result in subtractions from your final grade.
• Arrive on time for the beginning.

1. Assignments must be submitted as word .docx documents.
2. They must begin with your name and which assignment it is.
3. Next anything useful the grader should know.
4. Next, if it is a resubmission, include the grader's comments and a few words about what the fixes are
5. Include all of your code as plain text, NOT as screen-shot images. Sensible font, sensibly spaced.
6. Make sure your code is readable, and that I will be able to copy and paste it somewhere if necessary.
7. Good coding practice: consistent proper indentation and spacing is required. Unreadable means ungradeable.
8. Good coding practice: things must have sensible and meaningful names.
9. Include useful test runs.
10. Faked test runs will be treated like any other form of cheating: a zero with no resubmissions allowed.
11. All assignments are to be submitted through blackboard under Assignments.
12. Grades will be posted on blackboard.

• There will be real deadlines for assignments.
• Assignments are graded out of 10,
  For every day (or part of a day) it is late, the maximum grade will be reduced by 1.
• Extensions will only be granted for exceptionally good reasons.
• You are always given plenty of time to complete assignments,
  If you don't start until the day it is due, you are asking for trouble.

• All assignments are to be individual effort. There will be no group work.
• When an assignment asks you to do something, you are expected to do it yourself.
• It is not acceptable to find something on the internet or in a book or anything like that.
• It is not even acceptable to find an official library function or class that does the job for you.
• Failure to follow these rules will result in a zero, without the possibility of resubmission.

• 50% of your final grade will come from the assignments,
• 50% of your final grade will come from examinations.
• Therefore you will not be able to pass the course if you don't do the assignments.
• There will be two mid-terms and one comprehensive final.
• Most, maybe all, of the final will consist of opportunities to improve your mid-term grades.

• It is not absolutely required to buy the text-book,
  
• Old versions from amazon and ebay are good enough and can be very cheap.