Honor code and grading policy for programming assignments

Programming assignments form a critical part of the course. They require you to integrate and utilize programming concepts and techniques learned in the course in your programs.

• Peer discussion is most encouraged, but copy-and-paste code from others is absolutely prohibited and will lead to discipline actions.
• Peer discussion based on code shown on the screen and paper could be very helpful for debugging purpose and explanation of ideas. But you should never pass around your code as electronic files to others except for the TA and the instructor.
• You should make sure that you are able to reconstruct your code from scratch without any outside help when you submit a programming assignment as your own work.

We’ll grade each programming assignment in a 0-6 scale based on the following guidelines (could have a fraction like 5.5 points out of 6), and a one-point daily discount rate for being late.

0. Nothing done.
1. Source code is completed but the code fails to compile successfully.
2. Source code can compile and do something required, but has serious bugs or miss a couple of key features.
3. Source code can compile and do most of the features required, but has many minor bugs or miss a key required feature.
4. Source code can compile and do all the features required, nearly fully functional, only a couple of minor bugs.
5. Source code can compile and do all the features required, fully functional, no bugs.
6. In addition to the points received above, get one more point if the source code is well indented and commented to make it visually very readable.