====== Grades - Tentative======

For projects you may work as an individual or in teams of at most two students.

Deadlines are strict: by **noon** on the day stated in the drop box. Assignment and Project Deadlines are very strict (use a York medical certificate if you are seriously ill).

The weight distribution of the course components is as follows:

  * 10% - Assignment 1 (Analysis of the problem domain, Jackson problem context diagrams and UML diagrams). Handed out Sep 17. Due: Sep. 25th. Grades handed out Oct 11.
  * 10% - Assignment 2 (User Manual as Requirements). Handed out Sep. 19, due: Oct. 11. Handed back Nov 8.
  * 15% - Assignment 3 (Mission & Safety Critical specifications via Spin and temporal logic requirements). Handed out October 30th. Due Monday Novermber 12th by noon.
  * 25% - **Test Nov. 15th**.
    * All lecture Notes up to and including the material on requirements for safety critical systems using Spin 9up to and including series 10). Exceptions below:
      * You will not be asked any questions on the B-method which was additional material to help with the understanding of specifications via UML statecharts. 
      * You will not be asked questions on Perl/CGI programming - this material was needed for understanding how to specify requirements for web based applications as in Project 2.
      * You will not be asked questions on Fit tables. This was to show how a requirememts document can be made testable.
    * All the required readings.
    * You will be tested on the material treated by Assignments 1, 2 and 3.
  * 5% - Assignment 4 (Parnas Table specifications). To be handed out in the last week of term.
  * 15% - Project 1 (Continuation of User manual as a requirement document from assignment 1, and implementation of the requirements). Handed out: Oct 12. Due date: Monday November 26th by noon. You will need to demo your work to the instructor during the last week of term.
  * 20% - Project 2 (Requirements elicitation & analysis and documentation). This project will commence towards the end of October. Handed out October 30th. Due: Monday December 10th, noon.

You can view your marks 
[[https://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani/ePost/server/ep.cgi?year=2007-08&term=F&course=4312|here]].

Conversion from numeric to letter grade is applied to the overall mark only and in accordance with the following departmental standard:

|F|E|D|D+|C|C+|B|B+|A|A+|
|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|
|<40|>40|>50|>55|>60|>65|>70|>75|>80|>90|

  * [[http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/policies/document.php?document=87|Common Grading Scheme for Undergradate Faculties]]