Evaluation Policies

Weekly Problem Sets will be posted, usually on Thursday afternoon and the typical deadline for submission will be the next Tuesday, before the lecture. We shall be very strict about the deadline and I shall cater to no requests for deadline extension for weekly problem sets. The problems are to be solved independently. However, you are allowed to discuss with your friends. Please read the collaboration policy below for more detail.

Programming Assignments will be posted less frequently than the weekly problems sets. Only after we have covered reasonably many topics are we going to post such an assignments. These will be in teams of at the most two students. Programming has to be done in Java. You can finish these assignments on your laptop by the given deadline and show a demo to your respective TA.

The above assignment components will constitute 20% of your grade.

There will be 3 in-class closed book Quizzes, the date for which will be announced. Each quiz will last for 35 minutes. Quizzes constitute 10% of your final score and the best two scores out of the three will be considered.

There will be 2 exams : Mid-sem and End-sem. Mid-sem will be a 2 hour closed book exam while End-sem will be 3 hour, also closed book. The weightages are 30% and 40% respectively.

Regrading

In case you are unsatisfied with grading of your problem sets or exams, your first point of contact is the TA who has evaluated your script (for the exams, this might change). In case you are unsatisfied, write the problem number along with your reason for regrading request clearly on a piece of paper, staple it and hand it over to the TF during her office hour. I shall take a look and regrade.

Electronic Devices Policy

We discourage students to use electronic devices during the lectures and the tutorials in order to avoid distraction for the instructor as well as fellow students. In case you cannot stick to this, it is best if you seat yourself towards the back. The instructor might ask a student to leave the classroom in case he/she finds a violation to this policy.

Collaboration Policy

All problem sets, exams and quizzes are to be solved and submitted independently by each and every student. However, you are allowed to discuss solution frameworks with fellow students, instructor or TAs/TF but not anyone or anything other than these. In case you have discussed a solution with fellow students, mention their names at the top of your submission. In case we find close similarity between solution of two different students without explicit mention of the above information, this will be treated as a case of plagiarism and the standard anti-plagiarism policy of the institute will apply in this case.