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.
• Arrive on time for the beginning.

• Assignments must be submitted as word documents.
• They must begin with your name and which assignment it is.
• 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.
• 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 assignments are to be submitted through blackboard under the assignments link.
• 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.
• I intend for there to 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.
• If you can get it, the "global edition" is good enough, and much cheaper.