Grading & Expectations

  • Participation & Attendance: 40%
  • Production Assignments: 40%
  • Documentation: 20%

Participation & Attendance

Showing up on time, engaging in the class discussion, and offering advice and critique on other projects in the class is a major part of your grade. Please be present and prompt. Class begins at 9:30 AM, and I expect everyone to be in place and ready to begin at 9:30 AM. Lateness will hurt your grade. If you're going to be late or absent, please email your instructor in advance. If you have an emergency, please let your instructor know as soon as you can. Please turn in assignments on time as well.

Production Assignments

For production assignments, you'll be expected to present your project in class on the day that it's due. If you're working in a group, all group members should be present, and should participate equally in the presentation.

Documentation

As with other classes at ITP, you should keep a record of your work, and you should document your projects. An online site for them is helpful, both to you as a reference to point to, and to others as a place to learn from.

Always cite the sources of your code, the places you learned techniques from, and the inspirations of your ideas. This is the equivalent to citing your sources in a written paper, and copying code or techniques without attribution is plagiarism. few ideas come out of the blue, and your readers can learn a lot from the sources you learned from or were inspired by.

Class Notes

We'll keep class notes on the class wiki. A different person will be assigned each week to take notes in the wiki during class. More than one person can take notes if you wish, but at the least, the person assigned should take notes for everyone's use. You may put your notes up after class if you wish, as long as you put them up before the following class. Your class note-taking day is an assignment, and will count toward your grade.

Networked Devices in Class

Though this is a class on networked devices, you should not let the use of them disrupt the class, or your direct participation in the discussion.

  • If it's a device where the outside world can contact you disruptively, don't let it disrupt the rest of the class.
  • If it's a device where you can initiate contact with the outside world, refrain from using it when others are presenting or a class discussion is in progress. The one exception to this is if you are taking notes for the class.