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| 3% | requirements |
| 8% | oral debates during lecture |
| 8% | debate essays |
| 1% | debate commentary |
| 30% | project |
| 15% | midterm |
| 35% | final exam |
Oral debates and the project are given group grades, absent exceptional circumstances such as unexcused absence from a debate. Other assignments are done and graded individually.
Practice debates are done in discussion, and are not graded.
Exams are done in-class. Exams are open book and open notes, but no automated devices (e.g., laptops) are allowed. No written makeups will be given.
The lateness penalty for an assignment that is submitted between N and N+1 full days late (where N is nonnegative) is 2N% of the assignment's value. That is, if the assignment is worth 100 points, the penalty is 1 point for being up to 1 day late, 2 points for being from 1 to 2 days late, 4 points for being from 2 to 3 days late, and so forth. Assignments are not accepted after the last day of instruction (this is typically the Friday before final exams), and are not accepted after the lateness penalty renders them irrelevant to the final grade.
Students must follow the UCLA Student Conduct Code, which prohibits cheating, fabrication, multiple submissions, and facilitating academic dishonesty. A summary of the academic integrity material of the Student Conduct Code can be found in the Student Guide to Academic Integrity, and the Office of the Dean of Students has a workshop on academic integrity.
Students are encouraged to study together, and to discuss general problem-solving techniques that are useful on assignments; but when working on the homework assignment students must specify the sources for all parts of their project. In particular, each changelog entry must accurately identify who contributed to that change. Also, when working on an individual assignment, students should not share detailed notes, pseudocode or code, and all work submitted must be done individually – for example, you should not publish your work on sites like GitHub, and you should not use a search engine like Google to find solutions that others may have published. If you have questions about the policy, please discuss them with the instructor.