Policies
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Missed Examinations
If you are unable to write a midterm due to illness or other extenuating circumstance, you must contact your instructor by e-mail or by phone as soon as possible in order to avoid a zero on the exam. Do not wait until the next class. In the case of illness, a medical note from your doctor will be required. If you are unable to write the final exam, you must contact the instructor and your faculty as soon as possible.
Regrading
If you feel that an assignment or exam was graded incorrectly, you must submit a written regrade request to the TA who did the marking for assignments, or to the instructor for exams. It is preferred that the written request be sent by e-mail from your UBC Interchange account. If you still have an assignment grade dispute after discussion with the TA, you may then contact the instructor. Regrade requests will not be accepted until 24 hours after work is returned, with the following exception: if the only problem is a simple arithmetic error, you may bring it to our attention immediately.
Religious Holidays
Students who are scheduled to attend classes or write examinations on holy days of their religions are permitted to absent themselves from class or examination provided they give at least two week's advance notice to the instructor. For more details on this policy please see UBC Policy #65: Religious Holidays
Collaboration & Plagiarism
Exams: The CPSC 111 midterm and final exams are to be done alone. Suspected violations
of this policy will be investigated and brought forward to the
Department's Undergraduate Affairs Committee.
Labs: You are allowed to collaborate with at most one other person on the CPSC 111 labs. This means that during your lab period, you may work through the lab exercises with another person who is registered in the same lab. You can either sit at your own computers and work together as necessary, or the two of you can sit at one computer and work together on the same problem.
Note that collaboration does not include copying someone else's work! If you collaborate together appropriately, both students should fully understand the solution to the problem by the end of the lab and both students should be able to go away and reproduce the solution independently.
Assignments: For the assignments, we will be allowing students to work in partners or individually (under no circumstances will larger groups be considered). If you wish to work with a partner, you will turn in a single assignment for both of you. This assignment must clearly indicate all necessary information for both students, and must include the team cover sheet. Here are hints for working in pairs.
The penalty for plagiarism at UBC usually involves suspension from the university and a notation on your transcript. Don't do it!
Lab Regulations
You will be provided with an account on our undergraduate computing network that you can use to complete labs and assignments in this course as well as for other general computing needs. However, there are certain responsibilities that come with that account. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with the following policies and regulations: