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Lab Homeworks

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Your grade for the course will be determined from your performance on the Lab Homeworks, in class Pop Quizes, Exams and Projects.

In order to pass the class, you must PASS the exams.

Lab Homeworks

There are 10 labs scheduled for the semester.  The number of labs you complete will determine your lab grade. 

#Labs 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Grade 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0

Exams

There will be 2 exams.  There will be an in class midterm (worth 250 points) and a final exam (worth 450 points) during finals week. 

Projects

There will be 3 projects, worth a total of 250 points.  Your projects will be evaluated by the TA's and a grade will be assigned to each project based on correctness, design, and documentation.

Pop Quizzes

During class, pop quizzes will be given. These quizzes will usually be 5-10 minutes. The quizzes will be given randomly and only some of them will be graded (also determined randomly). The total value of all the pop quizzes will be 50 points.

Final Grade

Your Final score will be the sum of these 5 scores.

Midterm (25%)
Final (45%)
Projects (25%)
Pop Quizzes (5%)
Lab Homeworks (5% bonus)
Your letter grade will be a monotonically increasing function of this score.  A ROUGH guide for the thresholds is given in the following table.

A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F
950 900 850 800 750 700 650 600 550 500 450 <450

These thresholds are by no means binding on the instructor. They may decrease, but will probably not increase.