CS250 Class Information

• Class Meetings
• 3:25PM - 5:30PM, Tuesday/Thursday, EB151
• Class attendance is not mandatory; however, the lecturer will not provide make-up classes.
• Handout(s) (if any) will be provided at class.
• Feel free to ask questions, especially at the Question/Answer (Q/A) time.
• The lecturer will emphasize the main points of each lecture and show examples in class; the students are supposed to go over the class notes and read the text book after class.
• The Q/A class time is for discussing general problems students have.
• Assignments
• Each assignment has two parts: one that has answers at the end of the text book, one that does not.
• It is not mandatory to turn in your assignments. Assignments are used to check your understanding of the materials covered in class, to find the difficulties you have, but definitely not to train people to cheat. So, please only turn in your assignments if you did them by yourself.
• Assignments will only be used as bonus program in the final total grades, i.e. if you study hard and do well in the exams, you can get good grades without having to turn in any assignment; if you make mistakes in the exams, your performance showing in your assignments may help.
• You are encouraged to turn in your works on the assignments. You will get comments and help from me.
• I encourage you to be self-motivated and independent in doing homeworks. Again, please don't turn in any copied solution to those assignments; it will only have negative effects on your grades if you do.
• There IS a due time for each assignment. Please do not turn in old assignment. It won't be graded (the Q/A class time may be used to discuss problems in the assignments, so you still have chance to learn the correct answers).
• Completed or partially finished works on the assignments are both acceptable. Only those completed works are eligible for consideration in improving your grades. Here is an example of how I grade your assignments:

Assignment No.X
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| SSN  | total points | finished points | correctness |
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| 1xx  |    30        |     30          | 98%         |
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| 2xx  |    30        |     10          | 100%        |
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| 3xx  |    30        |     30          | 50%         |
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| 4xx  |    30        |     30          | 70%         |
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Student 1xx shows good performance. Student 2xx does well in 1/3 of the assignment; however, his/her performance will not be judged as good or bad. There will be no positive nor negative effect on the grades of student 3xx and 4xx, either.
• Exams and Grading
Basically, they will be long form exams.
• Mid-term: 50%
• Final: 50%
• Office Hour
• Tuesday: 10:00AM - 12:00PM     Friday: 1:00PM - 3:00PM
• CH 153B
• Contact
• Lecturer: William Y. Wang
• Email: wangy@cis.uab.edu
• Department: http://www.cis.uab.edu

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Note:
The class and assignment policies only reflect the lecturer's idea on how to run CS250 as an undergraduate level class, especially a theory foundation class; they do not reflect the lecturer's idea on graduate level classes. These policies also subject to the general policies at the department.