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Department of Information Technology

CT Assignments, Project, Labs, & Lessons

Assignments, Labs, & Lessons

There are two assignments to do during the course, with lab sessions for troubleshooting in the preparation of your solutions, and lessons to discuss solutions. Each assignment is worth 10 assignment points, which are only valid this academic year.

Assignments are to be done in teams of at most two students. Each teammate must be able to explain individually any part of the solutions. Teams may change between assignments.

PhD students can skip these assignments (but are highly encouraged to do them nevertheless, though solo) if they do a sufficiently sophisticated project (see below).

Project

There is a mandatory project to do by the end of the course, the project topic being chosen from a provided portfolio of topics. The project is worth 20 project points, which are only valid this academic year.

The project is to be done individually. The project portfolio will appear below in due time.

PhD students can replace this project by a more sophisticated project (possibly in connection with their PhD research) in order to be relieved of the assignment and exam duties: contact Pierre Flener.

Deadlines & Submission

The assignment and project solution reports, with a mandatory cover sheet (source, if you use LaTeX), must be submitted electronically via the course manager server, whose clock may be different from yours. Solutions may only be submitted by email or hardcopy upon prior written permission by the assistant, upon reporting a convincing case of force majeure.

Submission deadlines are soft but become hard 48 hours later, except in cases of force majeure, with a 10% penalty for submission during the first 24 hours and a 20% penalty for submission during the next 24 hours. Grading will only start after a deadline becomes hard, so you can submit multiple times until then.

Homework Lab Deadline Lesson
A1 Wed 09 Sep Fri 11 Sep 2009 at 18:00 Wed 16 Sep
A2 Wed 30 Sep Fri 02 Oct 2009 at 18:00 Thu 08 Oct
P none Fri 23 Oct 2009 at 18:00 none

Credits, Exam Bonus, & Expected Effort

The two assignments and the project are worth 3 higher-education credits (ECTS credits):

  • Pass, if you get at least 12 project points and your sum of assignment points and project points is at least 22 (of 40) points
  • Fail, otherwise

As an incentive, for each assignment, every assignment point strictly beyond 8 (of 10) translates into 5 bonus points (of 100) for the exam, but they are only valid this academic year!

Note that the whole course is worth 7.5 higher-education credits (ECTS credits), which translates into an expected 200 hours of work on this course for the average student, including attending the scheduled events (totalling about 38 hours, including the exam), reading and understanding the material, and preparing your assignment & project reports.

Ethics

The legislation on cheating (summary) of the IT department will be rigorously applied, without exceptions. We assume that by submitting a solution you are certifying that it is solely the work of your team, except where explicitly stated otherwise, and that each teammate can individually explain any part of the solution.

We reserve the right to use plagiarism detection tools and point out that they are very powerful.

Updated  2019-10-31 11:26:13 by Pierre Flener.