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CMSC 818
Syllabus
Projects
Readings
Lectures
Exams
Dates
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Tentative Grading Plan
Your grade will be determined as follows:
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% total |
| Programming
project |
1 |
20 |
| Midterm |
1 |
20 |
| Final |
1 |
30 |
| Paper presentations |
2 |
20 |
| Class participation |
- |
10 |
Exams
- The final exam will be comprehensive.
- Mid-term may be take-home.
Programming project
- In C++ or Java, implementing an application using DataCutter, on a Linux
cluster. The projects will be done in teams of 2 people. Accounts will be forthcoming.
- The project should be submitted by 6:00 pm on the day it
is due.
Late projects will be not be accepted.
- The instructor reserves the right to fail, regardless of overall numeric score,
students who do not submit on-time a good faith attempt to complete
the programming assignment.
- All submissions of assignments will be via email to
me. Posted deadlines for program submission are
sharp;
standard Unix time of submission is used.
Intellectual Integrity, Academic Honesty, and Cheating
- The college policy on academic dishonesty is strictly followed.
All graded materials (whether exams or programming assignments) must be strictly
individual efforts.
- We expect you to follow all UMIACS and UMD guidelines for responsible machine
usage.
- Dr. Sussman is the information owner for all
Linux cluster accounts in this class, and all files in those accounts may be inspected by him at any
time.
- Allowing another student not in your group to examine a listing of your program or
examining the listing of another student's program (not in your
group), for any reason, is strictly
forbidden.
- Logging onto another student's account, for any reason, is cheating.
- Attempting to falsely represent the correctness of your program, or to
delay other members of the class from completing a programming assignment, is cheating.
- The standard penalty for any cheating is to receive a grade of
XF in the course. This grade denotes failure due to academic dishonesty, and your
transcript will be so annotated.
- Automatic tools may be used to compare your solution to
that of every other current or past student in this class, so it will be very
difficult to hide any collaboration.
The risk of getting caught is too high, and the standard penalty
is way too high (grade of XF). In Fall 1997, Bill Pugh caught 14 students who
thought they could hide their collaboration
in CMSC 430.
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