Grading

Your grade will be determined by the project (50%) and exams (50%). The complete breakdown is as follows:

• 25% static semantic checking project
• 25% code generation project
• 15% quizzes
  • Quizzes: 8 to 10 on Tuesdays, covering material from preceding Tu/Th. 2 lowest quizzes will be dropped; 3 if at least 9 quizzes are given.
• 35% final (finals week)

The initial grading scale in points/percent is:
     A = 90-100
     B = 80-89
     C = 70-79
     D = 60-69
     F = 00-59
Depending on the difficulty of the particular projects, quizzes, and final exam, your grade may be higher, with a maximum adjustment of 10 points (e.g., a D may go down to 50). Expect grades that are close to a B- curve.

Projects are graded by running your compiler on several dozen Object-Oriented Oberon programs, and checking the output of your compiler against the expected output (for the code gen project, we actually run the generated assembly code). Projects are not graded for the quality of their design, but our experience is that well-designed projects tend to be more correct.

Points (percent) will be deducted for late or malformed project turnins. Please follow the directions carefully. Every bad turnin costs us at least 15 minutes that could be spent helping you or preparing for class.

• Late turnin: 5 minute grace period, 1 percent per minute thereafter.

• Malformed turnin: 5 percent for each major mistake (e.g., missing/malformed makefile or MEMBERS file, included binary files, output of debugging messages, code gen output generated code to wrong file, etc.).

• Repair of bad turnin: 10 percent penalty, plus 10 percent penalty for each 24 hour period elapsed before receiving the repair request. (You must send an e-mail or speak to us in person; do not re-turnin, or the first deduction rule will apply.)