• UIT Moodle Page Section Z only (for iClicker)
• UIT Moodle Page for Sections E and Z

• Thursday January 3 - Winter Classes Start. You are required to do Lab0 in this week.
• February 16-22 - Reading Week
• Friday March 8 - Last date to drop course without receiving a grade
• Wednesday April 3 - Last date to submit term work
• Labtest1 - Feb 28 (Z) and March 1 (M)
• Labtest2 - March 14 (Z) and March 15 (M)
• Project Due Date - TBD
• Friday April 3 - Classes end
• April 5-20 - Exams. This is closed book exam, but you may bring one data sheet (US Letter, both sides).

Due Dates:

• Finish Lab0 by Friday, 4 January. Not graded.
• Lab1: Monday January 21, 2pm (strict).
• Lab2: Monday January 28, 2pm (strict).

Please report any issues with your grading within one week of receiving your grade/feedback.

Before doing Lab1, you will want to familiarize yourself with Eiffel, the Eiffel Method and the EiffelStudio IDE. See here.

Readings

• The Required Readings listed above are are available to you online in the course SVN (be sure to sign in on this wiki bottom/right).
• The SVN also has slides contrasting Java and Eiffel
• Review basic Eiffel Syntax/semantics here. Spend your first week obtaining familiarity with the syntax and familiar use of the EiffelStudio IDE. You will need it.

This course is work intensive and it is expected that you will be doing at least 10 hours of work per week.

At times (e.g. in the Project) you are allowed to work on your own or in a team of at most two. If you are working with a partner, be sure to create a shared storage area (e.g. a private GitHub repository) where you both have access to the design/code. You will want to ensure that you each understand the other's work. In case a partner withdraws from the course or does not contribute, you are still responsible to ensure that you submit the work for the complete project on your own (with an explanation of the context in which this happened).

You can view your marks here.

You may obtain feedback on your Labs via the command line by doing:

>feedback 3311 Lab1
>feedback 3311 quiz1

The grade for your Lab Reports will be available on Moodle.

• Common Grading Scheme for Undergradate Faculties

For each grading unit you are assigned a raw mark score that ranks you in the class. Also, you will be provided with a mapping from your raw mark score to a letter grade. The raw mark score is not a grade as it is merely used to rank you in the class (so, e.g. a raw mark score of 76 might be a C, not a B+, after the mapping is applied). The mapping will be supplied to you at the same time that the grading unit is handed back to you. The final grade is computed from the cut-offs as shown here.

On marks and marking

• A raw mark numerical score on a lab, quiz, project or exam is never “out of” anything, in that it is not interpreted or converted to a percentage. It is the sum of scores assigned to questions, occasionally individually adjusted where appropriate. A numerical raw mark numerical score is used to compute the letter grade in cases where there are many sub-questions in a single piece of work.
• Marks are not “belled” or “curved”, in the sense of being adjusted to approximate a normal distribution. They usually aren't normally distributed anyway in statistical terms and I know of no statistical transformation such as normalization which would make the scores more meaningful and/or accurate.
• You can't “lose marks” for anything - you didn't have them to begin with. Letter grades are assigned to raw mark numerical scores on a basis which I feel is both fair and reflects the meaning of each letter grade as determined by the York Senate and published in the York Undergraduate Programmes Calendar and referenced above.
• Only the letter grades have meaning as determined by the cut-offs posted as each assignment unit is handed back.
• Marks are not a judgement on your intelligence or diligence or good intentions; they are just a reflection of the work you handed in. If you were very busy with other work, or recuperating from an illness, or emotionally stressed, it would be not be surprising if your mark was lower than under optimal conditions. However, a reason does not function as an excuse and does not provide a basis for altering the mark, which is a description of what you did, not why you did it. Work that is submitted late generally receives a grade of F.

• If you miss the deadline for the Labs, or project then your grade will be an F.

• If you miss a weekly Quiz, your grade will be an F – unless the York attending physician's statement (July 2017) is filled out in detail and the physician certifies that you were unable to write due to illness at the time of the quiz. You must inform the instructor immediately you are able to, that you cannot write the Quiz, and you must present the Physician's statement to the instructor the day after the Quiz. Alternative arrangements for the Quiz grade will then be made. Similar requirements apply to the exam.

• The entire Lab or Quiz may be regraded. Similar requirements apply to the exam.

If you have any issues with your grade, whether on your Labs, Quizzes, Lab Reports, etc, please print out your feedback, add your name and Prism login, write down clearly and precisely where and what your grading issues are, and hand the feedback to your instructor. This must be done within one week from the date the grades are announced. Your request must spell out the relevant part or section of the assignment what grade you did get, and what you feel your grade should be for that part.

If you want your Quiz, Lab, or Project regraded, then within one week of receiving the feedback do the following:

• Write out precisely and concisely your concerns.
• Staple your written concerns to your feedback document
• Return the above to the instructor within one week of receiving your feedback.

At times (e.g. in the Project) you are allowed to work on your own or in a team of at most two. If you are working with a partner, be sure to create a shared storage area (e.g. a private GitHub repository) where you both have access to the design/code. You will want to ensure that you each understand the other's work. In case a partner withdraws from the course or does not contribute, you are still responsible to ensure that you submit the work for the complete project on your own (with an explanation of the context in which this happened).