Instructors:
| Randall DeJong | Serita Nelesen | ||
| E-mail: | r"lastname"@calvin.edu | s"lastname"@calvin.edu | |
| Office: | DH 109 | NH 296 | |
| Phone: | x67625 | x68562 |
Communication Protocol: E-mail is generally the best way to reach us. When sending a message, prepend your subject with CS 300. Use full sentences in your message, and if you are asking for help with a code issue include:
Office Hours:
Materials:
Assignment Submission: We will use a combination of paper and electronic submission. Instructions will be included with each assignment.
Grading: We will compute your final grade as follows:
Attendance: We will not grade you on class attendance per se. If you have to miss a class for any reason, review the material and activities to be covered in the missed session and contact us if you have questions or comments.
Collaboration: You will often collaborate with others from this class for projects. If you do not regularly attend class, you will not be assigned to groups, and will forfeit the option to complete that assignment. As always, you are responsible for the work that you submit.
Individual Work: In general, feel free to discuss ideas with your classmates, the grader or the instructors, but don't copy in any way. If we detect any plagiarism, either from current or past students, we will be forced to give a failing grade on the assignment, and perhaps for the course.
Late Work: We will clearly indicate a due date for all assignments. Anything submitted up to one week after that date is late, unless you have made prior arrangements with the instructors. For each late assignment, you will be charged 10% for each business-day that you are late. Thus, if a homework is due on Friday, you may turn it in on Monday at 10% off, Tuesday at 20% off and so on. No assignment will be accepted more than one week late; if there are exceptional circumstances please talk with an instructor and we will try to work out some way for you to complete the work.
Disabilities: Calvin will make reasonable accommodations for you if you have documented disabilities. Notify the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities located in the Student Academic Services, HH 446, and also notify the instructors within the first two weeks of class.
Incompletes: We will give an incomplete grade (I) only in unusual circumstances and only if those circumstances have been confirmed by the Student Life office.
Academic Integrity at Calvin: The student-faculty relationship is based on trust and mutual respect, which can be seriously undermined by the suspicion or reality of academic dishonesty. Academic Dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism (students plagiarize when they do not credit the sources of their writing - the words, information, ideas, or opinions of others), improper group work, reuse of a paper from another course and/or cheating on a test. Students are encouraged to speak to their faculty member with specific questions related to academic dishonesty. For further clarification or information, please visit http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/writing/plagiarism.
Academic Integrity in Computing: Code re-use can be a valuable practice in computing, but mindlessly copying code is not an effective way to learn programming and reusing code or algorithms without attribution is plagiarism. If you’ve copied code or other materials with attribution, I’ll grade you on what you wrote, not on the material you copied. If I detect copying without attribution, i.e., plagiarism, I’ll be forced to give you a failing grade for the assignment and perhaps for the course.
Responsible Use of Technology: You are expected to abide by the guidelines expressed in the policies given in Calvin's Technology Policy Documents.