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.

• Assignments must be submitted as word documents.
• They must begin with your name and which assignment it is.
• Also include the full path to your program on rabbit, so I can look at it properly.
• Include all of your code as plain text, not as screen-shot images.
• Make sure your code is readable, and that I will be able to copy and paste it somewhere if necessary.
• No dark backgrounds or pale font colours.
• Disable word's automatic double spacing of lines.
• Make indentation clear. For a fixed width font two spaces is enough, but not for the ariel-like fonts.
• Include useful test runs.
• Be sure that your test runs really test all the important features.
• Your test runs should also be plain text, not screen-shot images.
• Except that if you do produce some graphical output, then of course a regular screen-shot is OK.
• Faked test runs will be treated like any other form of cheating: a zero with no resubmissions allowed.
• All programming will be in BCPL. There is a good reason for this!
• All assignments are to be submitted through blackboard under Assignments.
• 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.

• 90% of your final grade will come from the assignments,
• 10% of your final grade will come from attendance records.
• There are no examinations.
• Therefore you will not be able to pass the course if you don't do the assignments.

• It is not absolutely required to buy the text-book.
  
• Old editions on amazon and ebay are good enough.