Announcements regarding the course, including assignments, schedule and changes, will be published through the iCorsi system. Students are responsible for reading the course announcements.
Students are very much welcome and in fact encouraged to spontaneously stop by the instructor's and assitants' office, or to contact them on-line, to ask questions or discuss exercises and ideas. The instructor and the assistants will try their best to accommodate the students, but they might be unavailable for these extemporaneous meetings. Students may also reserve some time for a scheduled meeting by contacting the instructor and the assistants in advance.
| +70% | homework assignments and projects |
| +30% | paper presentation |
| ±10% | instructor's discretionary evaluation (e.g., for participation) |
or
| +100% | homework assignments and projects |
| ±10% | instructor's discretionary evaluation (e.g., for participation) |
Principle: Deadlines are firm.
Exceptions may be granted, only for documented medical conditions or other documented emergencies.
Penalties: late assignments will incur a penalty consisting of a reduction of the grade by one third of the value of the assignment per day. As a consequence, an assignment turned in more than two days late will count zero towards the overall course grade.
The term "material" here refers to ideas, words, code, or any other piece of intellectual work, including suggestions and corrections regarding the student's own work. The term "non-original" refers to any source other than the student who is submitting that material. This includes on-line sources such as examples from StackOverflow, or automatic systems such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, etc.
Using someone else's material in homeworks and/or exams may be appropriate -- indeed sometimes it is encouraged. For example, in creating software for a homework, a student may want to use external libraries, programs, code fragments, or other external software artifacts. In every such case, whether the external material is used verbatim or with modifications, the student must clearly identify the external material, and acknowledge its source. Failing to do so means committing plagiarism.
In any case in which external material is used by a student in homeworks and/or exams, the work will be evaluated based on the added value produced by that student.
Penalties: committing plagiarism on an assignment or an exam will result in failing that assignment or that exam. Each act of plagiarism will also result in a deduction of one or more points from the overall course grade, depending on the severity of the plagiarism. Penalties may be escalated in accordance with the regulations of the Faculty of Informatics.