Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:31:53 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:51:47 GMT Content-length: 3404 Assignments for CS 412

Assignments for CS412 (as of 28 october)

amplification of rules

Scientific work is very much based on cooperation, on making use of other people's work. However, if one presents work under one's own name, one is honor-bound to list any such sources used. Failure to do so is called cheating and results in loss of one's scientific standing (and worse).

This also applies to homework handed in under one's own name. Specifically, the instructor has nothing against students cooperating on homework assignments provided such cooperation is explicitly acknowledged in the homework handed in and provided the students understand that mere copying without understanding can only hurt in the exam (not to mention the fact that it defeats the course's basic goal which is for the students to learn the course material).

assignments

If you pick up the TeX file of an assignment, be aware of certain peculiarities: Material between vertical bars within the text is meant to appear in print in typewriter font, like a matlab expression. It has its usual meaning of absolute values signs only when it appears in a math-expression, i.e., within material enclosed in dollar signs.

policies and comments

If a problem asks you to carry out some MATLAB calculation, be sure to hand in a clean and well-commented script which carries out the calculations, along with a diary (edited to be short and to the point) showing the relevant answer(s) generated by your script.
Mark all homework clearly with your name. In addition, put the first letter of your last name boldly into the upper left corner of the first page of your homework, to make it easier for us to sort it and for you to find it again when it is handed back.

If a problem asks you to carry out some MATLAB calculation, be sure to hand in a clean and well-commented script which carries out the calculations, along with a diary (edited to be short and to the point) showing the relevant answer(s) generated by your script.

There will be an assignment every two weeks, and each assignment (except for the first) is likely to contain three problems, summing up to 65 points, with 5 T/F questions providing an additional 10 points.

policy on late homework

  1. Any homework not handed in by the BEGINNING of the class period of the due date loses 10%.
  2. Any homework not handed in by 5p of the due date loses 25%.
  3. Any homework not handed in by noon of the day after the due date loses 100%.
  4. To `hand in' homework outside class, put it into the instructor's mailbox (fifth floor of CS & Stat) or hand it directly to the instructor (if you can find him :-).