Assignments: COMPSCI 230 Semester 1, City Campus

Assignments will be worth 20% (=6%+7%+7%) of the final grade. There will be 3 assignments with due dates as follows:

• Assignment 1: is in Radu's lectures folder, due: 05/04/2012
• Assignment 2: is in Radu's lectures folder, due: 19/05/2012
• Assignment 3: here due: 29/05/2012

All assignments will be submitted and returned electronically. Unless your lecturer told you otherwise, electronic submission is done through the Web Dropbox. Please keep the receipt!

• Late submissions will be accepted, but only for up to three days. However, there will be penalties: 10% off, for each day late.
• If you are sick, or for some other serious reason would need an extension, email the lecturer who has set the assignment.
• Before submitting:
  • Check carefully that your project runs in the lab (i.e. not only on your home or office machine). This is the only environment that will be used by the markers.
  • Do not expect that the marker will correct or improve your code, even if only minor corrections are required.
  • Please check again your zip file before submission. In particular, check that you are submitting all the required files and you can rerun your project in another location (in another folder or even another lab machine).
• After receiving the marks, if you think that the marking was not fair (and have good arguments), please follow the following steps (in order):
  1. First, please send an email to the marker, clearly identifying your issue(s) and your argument(s).
  2. If you do not reach a consensus with the marker, please talk to the tutor.
  3. If you still do not reach a consensus, talk to the lecturer in charge of that assignment.

Although you are welcome to verbally discuss assignment problems with your friends, you must develop the code for your assignments on your own - it is not acceptable to submit code or parts of a program written by someone else claiming it was your work.

The Computer Science Department uses many ways to check that the work students submit for marking is their own and was not produced by, or copied from, someone else. In particular, for most programming assignments, the department uses a comparison program to automatically compare all submissions from students and detect all similarities (even non obvious ones).

• Suspicious assignments are reviewed by the course supervisor or another suitable person associated with the course.
• All assignments deemed to be too similar are allocated a zero mark and a standard email is sent to these students.
• All students who submitted these assignments are referred to the Departmental Academic Committee, which will review the case and may decide on further measures, such as:
  • Offenders may be entered in the duplicate assignment register (a list of students whose work is known to have been copied). This list is maintained over many years.
  • Additionally, offenders may be referred to the University Disciplinary Committee.

Note: Both the person who copied the work and the person whose work was copied are allocated a zero mark. It is important that you do not lend your assignments to others. Never give anyone a copy of your assignment before it is due (even to your best friend, we have had many cases where this has occurred and you will both get zero). It is the responsibility of each student to ensure that others do not copy their work.

Please carefully read the Academic honesty.