GRADING

Grades for CSC171 will be calulated based Exams, Projects, Labs and Quizes.

Exams

Exams will account for 50% of the grade. Three exams will be given during normal lecture times. One final exam will be given during finals week. See the course sylabus for the exact dates.

All exams are "closed Book" and "closed Notes".

Programming Projects

Projects will account for 25% of the grade. Three projects will be assigned during semester. See the course sylabus for the exact dates.

Labs

Lab work will account for 15% of the grade. Fifteen lab assignments will be given over the course of the semester. Each lab assignment must be written up and demonstrated to the lab seession instructor and will be graded on the basis of the amount of the lab completed.

Collaboration with other students is encouraged during the lab seesions. Collaboration includes open discussion and use of handwritten note. Wholesale copying of programs, by electronic or any other means, is striclty forbidden.

Quizes

Quizes will account for 10% of the grade. Eleven quizzes will be given during the lecture seesions. The top 10 quiz grades will count equally toward the grade. See the course sylabus for the exact dates.

All quizes are "closed book" and "closed notes".

Letter Grade Assignments

The percent values of the exams, projects, labs, and quizes sums to 100. Final grades will be the

Numeric Grade Final Grade
Above 93 A
90 -- 93 A-
87 -- 89.5 B+
83 -- 86.5 B
80 -- 82.5 B-
77 -- 79.5 C+
73 -- 76.5 C
70 -- 72.5 C-
67 -- 69.5 D+
63 -- 66.5 D
60 -- 62.5 D-
Below 60 E