CP Assignments, Project, Labs, & Lessons

There are four 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 20 assignment points, which are only valid this academic year.

Assignments are to be done in teams of two students. The assignments will appear below in due time.

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).

There is a mandatory project to do by the end of the course, without lab sessions and lessons. The project is worth 20 project points.

The project is to be done in teams of two students. A 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, and to be done solo) in order to be relieved of the assignment and exam duties: contact Pierre Flener.

The assignment and project reports, with mandatory cover information and declarations (source, if you use LaTeX), must be submitted electronically via the Student Portal, whose clock may be different from yours.

Reports may only be submitted by email or hardcopy upon prior written permission by the assistant, upon reporting to him as soon as possible a convincing case of force majeure, normally during office hours and at least one week before the deadline.

Submission deadlines are hard, except in a convincing case of force majeure, upon reporting it to the assistant as soon as possible, normally during office hours and at least one week before the deadline.

Every assignment or project report must be prepared by a team of two students. A report may only be submitted solo upon prior written permission by the assistant, upon reporting as soon as possible a convincing case of force majeure, normally during office hours and at least one week before the deadline; the permission is only valid for that assignment or project and must be renewed if need be. Teams can under no circumstance comprise more than two students. Teams may change between assignments. Project teams may be different from assignment teams. Do not use any group submission feature, but submit two identical copies of the report. A random report copy of a team will be graded, so make sure they are identical. The report of a team will get zero points if at least one of the copies is missing after the deadline.

The legislation on cheating (summary) of the IT department will be rigorously applied, without exceptions. We reserve the right to use plagiarism detection tools and point out that they are very powerful.

We assume that by submitting a report 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 report at the moment of submission. We thus reserve the right to make checks.

The four assignments are worth 2 higher-education credits (ECTS credits):

• Pass, if you get at least 48 assignment points total, and at least 6 assignment points on each assignment
• Fail, otherwise

The project is worth 3 higher-education credits (ECTS credits):

• Pass, if you get at least 12 project points
• Fail, otherwise

As an incentive, for each score S of an assignment or the project, you get max(0,S -16) bonus points for the exam, but they are only valid this academic year. Hence up to 20 (of 100) exam points can be earned through the assignments and project! Another 5 bonus points can be earned in a run-time competition on the project.

The whole course is worth 10 higher-education credits (ECTS credits), which translates into an expected 267 hours of work on this course for the average student, including attending the scheduled events (totalling 57.5 hours, including the exam), reading and understanding the material, and preparing your assignment & project reports. In other words, the four assignments may well be calibrated to take an average of 20 hours each for the average student, and the project may well be calibrated to take 120 hours for the average student. This does not clash with other courses you are taking, as university studies are defined to take 400 hours of work over a 10-week-period.

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