Homework

Instructions

  • Provide a justification (e.g. intermediate steps) leading to all responses for full credit.

  • You may use textbooks, class notes or online searches so long as the resource does not which directly resolve your HW problems (e.g. chatGPT)

  • You are welcome to work on problems with classmates though you may not directly view another student’s solution to a given problem.

  • List your homework group members: “Homework group: person A, person B” or “HW group: none” near the top of the first page of your submission. A 5 point penalty will be applied to all work which does not include this statement.

  • HW groups may have four or fewer student in them

  • Some points are labelled as extra credit (they’ll be labelled “+ 2 extra” or similar). These problems are intended to be challenging and fun. Take a minute or two on them, and if you’re not having fun feel free to skip the problem. (To minimize any fear-of-missing-out, the point values on these will be quite modest … if you’re looking to improve your grade be sure to polish your work on the rest of the HW: its often much easier to find and fix a 3 point mistake than to earn 3 extra credit points).

Submitting to Gradescope (and formatting)

The video above includes some (but potentially not all) information required to submit your HW. Please read the instructions below to ensure you follow all instructions.

  • Please do not write your solution for distinct problems on the same page. Any submission with multiple problems per page will have a 5 point penalty applied (once per whole assignment, no double jeopardy).

    • You may include many sub-parts (e.g. part i and part ii) on the same page.

    • You may use multiple pages for any single problem.

  • Your work should be easily legible, up to 10 points may be penalized for work which isn’t easily read. Work which isn’t readable at all will earn no points:

    • you may use Cam Scanner on your phone to create a pdf using ``Magic Color’’

    • file formats not readable by gradescope (e.g. the apple default image format HEIC) may be penalized up to 10 points as well. If you can view images of your work on gradescope’s website, your format is appropriate

  • Please be sure to associate each gradescope problem to the corresponding pages in your submission, a 5 point penalty may be applied to problems which aren’t precisely tagged (e.g. incorrect pages and extra pages).

    • An extra credit problem you haven’t attempted should be tagged as the first page of the assignment

    • The “HW Formatting” question on gradescope is where we’ll apply any penalties for formatting errors described here. Please tag the first page for this “question”.

Tip

Gradescope accepts multiple submissions for a single assignment. We’ll grade the latest one, ignoring previous versions.

Use this multiple submission feature to test gradescope if you’re a first time user. Its also helpful in the event you’re cutting a deadline particularly close: submit mostly complete work at 10 pm for the 11:59 pm deadline while continuing to work on incomplete parts which you hope to include in a later submission. (Though you’ll do yourself a favor by starting early to avoid this situation entirely!).

Regrades

If you feel a mistake has been made in the grading of your work, you may request a regrade through gradescope. The first regrade request will be managed by the TA who originally graded your work. If you are still not satisfied with the grading, the course instructors will look at it themselves, just email them directly including a url link to your assignment in gradescope of the form:

https://www.gradescope.com/courses/478298/assignments/2601151/submissions/175893272

Note

Grade adjustments will only be made based on the merit of the work submitted. Please do not submit a regrade request asking for points with other justifications.

Regrade requests will only be considered up to one week after the graded HW has been posted. In other words, if your HW is returned on Sept 7th then you have until Sept 14th to submit a regrade request. (There may be a tighter deadline on the final HW to allow us to finalize grades).