General Assignment Guidelines

[Last updated: 12/14/2012]

These are the general guidelines for homework assignments.

  1. Unless another format is specified for a particular assignment, all assignment submissions should be in either .pdf format or in some format that can be read by Microsoft Word.
  2. All homework submissions must be made to Web-CAT.
  3. Solutions to homework assignments must be typeset either using a word processor or in plain ASCII text. No handwritten work (including scanned documents) will be accepted. You may include "hand-sketched" electronic illustrations if appropriate.
  4. Web-CAT has a hard limit of 1Mb for the file size. When submitting projects, you should not include Java "class" files. When submitting written homework, you might run into file size problems if you include many hand-drawn images. For MS Word users, sometimes submitting a MS Word file will be smaller than the corresponding PDF file. Converting the images to .jpg or .png and then linking those images into the Word document might make a big difference
  5. While no assignments in this class are explicitly graded on use of English, all assignments are expected to be written with good English grammar, style, spelling, punctuation, etc. If the writing is bad enough, a penalty will be given.
  6. Answers to problems should be as long as necessary and no longer. Certainly you will be marked down if an answer is incomplete. It is also possible to be marked down for being too wordy or providing irrelevent material, though I don't expect this to happen often.
  7. Problems may often be written in the form "What is the answer?" without explicitly asking for an explanation. Regardless, unless the problem explicitly states that you should not, you are required to explain your answer or show the work for a calculation in order to get full credit.
  8. Unless explicitly indicated otherwise on the assignment, all assignments are to be done on your own. The University Honor Code applies to all assignments.
  9. All assignments must include the following pledge:

    I have not received unauthorized aid on this assignment. I understand the answers that I have submitted. The answers submitted have not been directly copied from another source, but instead are written in my own words.

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