CSE 260 Grading and Course Policies

Fall 2009

Scott B. Baden

Lecture

Grading

Grading will be based on assignments, a course research project and class participation.

Homework assignments (45%)

There will be 3 programming labs which will be carried out by teams of two.

 

Project (45%)

The class project will account for the largest share of your grade. I will permit some projects to be done in teams of three; all others will be done in teams of two. To learn more about the projects, consult this URL, where a (growing) list of projects is posted:
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/classes/fa09/cse260/Projects

If you have an idea for a research project, let me know. Projects range from parallelizing an application, enhancing some aspect of performance in an existing application, and may be performed on a Cluster, a many core shared memory multiprocessor, or on a GPU.

Class Participation (10%)

Be prepared to discuss the readings during lecture, and contribute to the class discussions.

Academic Integrity

While I encourage you to discuss the your labs and projects with your classmates, the work done by your team must be independent of others. You must not take written notes while discussing someone else’s work nor anytime afterwords. You must not use someone else’s code, nor code you wrote for another course, unless I authorize it. Since this is a graduate course, and I expect you to have programming experience, I will authorize certain code usage exclusions early on in the course.

Though I don't expect there to be a problem in a graduate course, Academic Integrity will be strictly enforced. Anyone found plagiarizing another's work, or making their own work available to others, will receive a zero grade for the work in question and face other possible consequences.   You are assumed to be familiar with the Academic Honestly Policies for this course, as described in the following document:

If you aren't sure about this policy be sure and see me. Academic Integrity policies apply to teams as well as individuals.

Lateness and Grading appeals

I'll consider any reasonable request for a delayed turnin, but all other assignments must be turned in on time. I'll accept regrade requests for one week after the assignment or exam has been returned to the class. After that, the grading decision is final.