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 and will count towards your final grade.
• Arrive on time for the beginning.

1. Assignments must be submitted as word documents.
2. They must begin with your name and which assignment it is.
3. Then say exactly where I can find the file in your rabbit account.
4. Then any comments about clever/complicated things you have done that might need to be explained to me.
5. Then, if it is a resubmission, include all of my original feedback and say a few words about how you have corrected everything.
6. Then include all of your code as plain text, not as screen-shot images.
7. Make sure your code is readable, and that I will be able to copy and paste it somewhere if necessary.
8. Good coding practice: consistent proper indentation and spacing is required. Unreadable means ungradeable.
9. Good coding practice: things must have sensible and meaningful names.
10. Include useful test runs.
11. Be sure that your test runs really test all the important features.
12. Your test runs should also be plain text, not screen-shot images.
13. Except that if you do produce some graphical output, then of course a regular screen-shot is OK.
14. Faked test runs will be treated like any other form of cheating: a zero with no resubmissions allowed.
15. All assignments are to be submitted through blackboard under Assignments.
16. Grades will be posted on blackboard.

• This is all about learning algorithms. You must create them yourself.
• If an assignment or question is about hash tables, you must implement your own hash table.
• Even a regular official C++ library is disallowed.
• <unordered_map>, <unordered_set>, <map>, <set>, <deque>, <algorithm>, <priority_queue>, <multiset>, <multimap> ...
  are just examples. Nothing of that kind is permitted.
• auto and iterators are forbidden, they suppress learning.
• Third party software is completely out of the question.
• In this class, you may always #include <iostream>, <fstream>, <sstream>, <iomanip>, <string>, <vector>, <cctype>, <cmath>, <cstdlib>, <cassert>, <ctime>, and "library.h".
• If you think I have left something out of that list, tell me. Don't just assume.
• The old-fashioned C libaries like <cstring>, <fcntl.h>, <unistd.h>, and so on are not strictly forbidden. But if you think you need one of them, you can be sure you are doing something wrong, so don't.
• In particular input and output operations must be done the C++ way, not the C or Unix way.

• 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.

• You will all have accounts on the Unix server rabbit.eng.miami.edu
• You should do all of your assignments there; it is very important to be familiar with Unix
• If you insist on not following that rule, you must at least upload your work to rabbit,
  and make sure it works there. Visual Studio sometimes fails to detect errors.
• When you submit an assignment, you must tell me exactly where to find it in your account.

• 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,
  but it is definitely recommended.
• Old versions from amazon and ebay are good enough and can be very cheap.