CS452 - Real-Time Programming - Spring 2013
Administrative Details
Described in excruciating detail here.
Instructor
Bill Cowan, [wW][mM][cC][oO][wW][aA][nN]@cgl.uwaterloo.ca, DC2111,
x34527.
Teaching Assistants
- Ben Cassell
- Colton Pauderis
Location and Times of Lectures
- MC2038
- 13.30-14.20: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Important Dates
- Monday, 6 May, 2013 - First lecture.
- Monday, 20 May, 2013 - No lecture, Victoria Day.
- Monday, 1 July, 2013 - No lecture, Canada Day.
- Tuesday that is a Monday, 30 July, 2013 - Final lecture.
- TBD, probably 31 July, 1 August - Project demos.
- TBD - Final examination.
Course Newsgroup
Course E-mail
Textbook
- Course and Lecture Notes: all on-line.
- The pages you reach on www.cgl, like this one, are the instructor's web
pages.
- Web pages in the usual place.
Marking Scheme
- 35% kernel/assignment 0.
- 35% project
- 30% final examination.
Please Note. The assignments in this course are cumulative.
Therefore it is important that I manage the course so that almost all
students succeed on almost every assignment. This suits me just fine:
students learn a lot from doing an assignment on which they succeed or almost
succeed. But this causes a problem: assignment and project marks don't vary a
lot, even though it is quite obvious, to you and to me, that some students
have achieved quite a bit more than other students. My solution to this
problem is to give a take-home examination with relatively open-ended
questions, and to mark it in the European style, that uses the entire range
of marks, so that a passing mark is about 5 out of 30, with marks spread out
up to almost thirty based on students gong beyond routine answers to the
questions.. Based on several terms of experience this solution has two
extremely important properties.
- The marks it gives correlate well with my perceptions of how much
students have learned in the course. This includes groups where I have
perceived the contribution of the partners to have been unequal.
- The mark range it gives corresponds well with faculty and school
expectations for a fourth year specialist course.
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