Course Administration
Instructor
- Wayne Eberly
Email: eberly@ucalgary.ca
URL: www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~eberly
Office Hours: 1:00–1:50pm, Mondays and Wednesdays, in ICT 613 — or by appointment, arranged by email in advance.
Modality of Course
This is an in-person course.
Meetings — Lectures
This is a flipped course: Students are expected to work through material — before scheduled lecture times — that is provided ahead of time on the course web site. During the lecture presentation, the instructor will answer questions that students have about the assigned reading and will then solve a problem that is based on the reading material, and that might be similar to a problem that students will be asked on an assignment or test.
Lectures will not be recorded. However, a completed solution for the lecture problem will be made available on the course web site after the lecture.
Lectures will be held from 2:00–2:50pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in SB 148.
Attendance at lectures is highly recommended: Especially if you are carrying out the assigned reading, this will make it easier for you to keep up with the course as the term progresses. It will also give you a chance to ask questions about the course material and get to know the instructor and other students in the course.
Assessment
Components and Weightings
When computing your grade, the following components and weightings will be used for students in CPSC 511:
| Assignments (Best 3 of 4, equally weighted): | 50% |
| Midterm Test: | 20% |
| Final Examination: | 30% |
Grade Calculation
Each piece of work submitted by the student will be assigned a percentage grade. The student’s grade for each component listed above will be combined with the indicated weights to produce an overall percentage grade for the course. This percentage grade will be rounded up to the nearest integer, to obtain a whole number between 0 and 100. The following conversion between a percentage and a letter grade will then be applied to determine the course letter grade:
| A+ | A | A− | B+ | B | B− | C+ | C | C− | D+ | D | |
| Minimum % Required: | 95% | 90% | 85% | 80% | 75% | 70% | 66% | 62% | 58% | 54% | 50% |
Assignments
There will be four assignments, with the best three grades used (with equally weighted assignments) to compute an overall assignment grade. Each is due at 11:59pm on the date shown for it:
| Assignment #1: | Monday, January 29 |
| Assignment #2: | Friday, February 16 |
| Assignment #3: | Monday, March 11 |
| Assignment #4: | Monday, April 8 |
Students in CPSC 511 will be allowed to work individually or in groups with at most two students when completing these assignments. Students may be allowed to prepare lecture notes, for use by the class, as an alternative to completion of Assignment #4.
Requests for extensions — including general extensions due to student workload — will be considered, provided that these are made in a timely way — don’t wait until the week when an assignment is due before asking for this! Late submissions may also be accepted with a marks penalty; additional information about this will be made available when assignments are released.
Tests
Subject to approval, the CPSC 511 midterm test will be written at 6:00–7:30pm on Tuesday, February 27. There will be a registrar-scheduled final examination, whose duration is 2 hours, taking place during the examination period.
Students will be allowed to bring in a double-sided letter-sized page of notes (that may be either printed or handwritten) as an aid for each test. No other aids will be allowed.
