Homework Policy
Attendance Policy
Required. Before coming to class, consult this website for links to each week's handouts and homework assignment, make a copy of them and bring them to class.
Electronic Distraction Policy
As students, you are expected to come to class prepared for and to participate in the discussion that is taking part between the instructor and the class. Your time is as valuable as the instructor's. In these days of personal & portable computing/wireless technology everywhere, some common sense is necessary. During class students will use these devices only on class-related tasks...like taking notes.
Some examples of non-class-related tasks are:
- Using a laptop to check or work on your home/work email.
- Using a laptop to trade stocks (after-hours trading...this is a night course after all) or manipulate any types of mutual fund or brokerage accounts.
- Playing solitaire on a Palm Pilot
- Checking email on a wireless Palm Pilot
- Sending messages to someone via a cell phone
- Working with email on a Blackberry-type device
- Sending messages to other students within the class via an infrared messaging device.
- Responding to 2-way pager messages with something like a Skytel pager (checking a pager and receiving messages is OK and sometimes a necessity for a job - I know...I carry a pager myself)
- Etc...this list is by NO means exhaustive.
The first time a student is caught using these types of devices that student will be asked to surrender the device to the instructor for the remainder of that day's class so as to eliminate the distraction to other students and the instructor. The student can retrieve the device at the end of the class
The second time, it will affect that student's grade and they will be asked to leave that class.
There will be NO third time.
Grading Policy
30% Homework Assignments
30% Midterm Exam
30% Group Project
10% Participation - based in part, on input from your other team members.
A - 90 and above
B - 80 to 89
C - 70 to 79
D - 60 to 69
F - 59 and below
+/- grades are given based on effort and are at the discretion of the instructor
After the posted due date submitted homework is worth zero points. Date stamp of source code must be before midnight of the cutoff date.
Illness or other family emergency is the only acceptable excuse for missing an exam. If you are going to miss the exam, contact the instructor or the receptionist (312 362 8381) before the exam is to take place.
Any and all makeup tests will be oral.
Failure to give your final presentation at the time announced by the instructor will result in failure of the course. Don't be late.
Incomplete Policy
I do not do incompletes.
Plagiarism Policy
In this course, each student/team is expected to submit his/her own work as well as work in assigned teams over the course of the quarter.
In this class, the penalty for plagiarism is a grade of "F" in the course.
As per the 1998 - 2000 School of CTI Graduate Bulletin, DePaul University's plagiarism policy is as follows:
Plagiarism is a major form of academic dishonesty involving the presentation of the work of another as one's own. Plagiarism includes but is not limited to the following:
- The direct copying of any source such as written and verbal material, computer files, audio disks, video programs, or musical scores, whether published or unpublished, in whole or in part, without proper acknowledgement that it is someone else's.
- Copying of any source in whole or in part with only minor changes in wording or syntax even with acknowledgement.
- Submitting as one's own work a report, examination paper, computer file, lab report, or other assignment which has been prepared by someone else. This includes research papers purchased from any other person or agency.
- The paraphrasing of another's work or ideas without proper acknowledgement.
Plagiarism, like other forms of academic dishonesty, is always a serious matter. If an instructor finds that a student has plagiarized, the appropriate penalty is at the instructor's discretion. Actions taken by the instructor do not preclude the college or University taking further punitive action including dismissal from the University.
For further information about the University's policies on academic integrity, please consult the student handbook.
Reservation of Rights
The instructor reserves the right to modify policies at any time for any reason he sees fit.
The instructor also reserves the right to add or remove policies at any time as necessary.