If you are having any trouble whatever in this course, you must communicate this to me as soon as possible so we can plan a corrective course of action (see E-mail below, for example).

Programs are to be completed and turned in on the assignment due date (by the stated time on the due date). A 10% penalty will be levied for each day past the due date that late work is turned in unless extraordinary circumstances (e.g., illness, accident, etc.) dictate otherwise. All programs are to be turned in to the MCS Office on the assignment due date at which time they will be date and time stamped. Assignments not so date stamped may incur significant late penalties. DO NOT SLIDE ASSIGNED WORK UNDER MY OFFICE DOOR OR THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT DOOR!

Programs are to be completed and turned in on the assignment due date (by the stated time on the due date). A 10% penalty will be levied for each day past the due date that late work is turned in unless extraordinary circumstances (e.g., illness, accident, etc.) dictate otherwise. All programs are to be turned in to the MCS Office (McGraw Hall, Rm 104) on the assignment due date at which time they will be date and time stamped. Assignments not so date stamped may incur significant late penalties. DO NOT SLIDE ASSIGNED WORK UNDER MY OFFICE DOOR OR THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT DOOR! Late penalties cannot exceed the total value of the assignment, and even for hopelessly late programs I generally give a scrap value of 10% of the assignment value. All lab assignments printed in the McGraw Lab must be turned in with the header page attached as given to you there. If you intend to print your assignments on your own PC, please see the attached special instructions. If an assignment is not turned in within 48 hours of the date on the header page of the program listing or the program file's date information on your diskette's directory, it will be treated as if it were turned in on the day that I receive it. Programming assignments not received on or before the final day to turn in programs (as announced in class) will be assigned a grade of zero. NOTE WELL: I will, at my discretion, lower a student's final course grade one letter grade for each zero earned on a programming assignment. Also note that questions will appear on each exam which are geared to the programming assignments since the last exam.

Any program you turn in for credit must run without generating errors or warning messages. All output must be correct as required by the assignment using the input data supplied and/or input test data of my design. Programs which do not produce correct output, will not run without errors, or are poorly written will be returned to be redone (and hence will incur a late penalty of at least 20%, but more probably 25-30%).

It is expected that your programs will be clearly organized, readable and easy to understand. Violations of these rules (listed in detail in Criteria for writing/grading Program code) can also result in a program being returned to be redone (depending on the severity of the errors):

1. Include a prologue including program assignment number, section number, project due date, assignment value, and a short description of the purpose of the program (see program #1). Correct English usage and spelling is required in all documentation (and points can be deduced for misspellings and poor grammar).
2. MEANINGFUL identifiers must be used throughout your code ("self-documenting code").
3. Internal comments and documentation (in longer programs) are required to explain the purpose of various sections of your code. This is especially necessary in the headers of all user-defined functions and procedures.
4. Your output must be attractively formatted: headings centered over columns, columns aligned, output quantities properly labeled, useful messages to the user on screen during program execution, etc.

ALL WORK YOU TURN IN MUST BE YOUR OWN. Never allow your diskettes to be copied (secure them as you would any valuable document). Copying someone else's code may result in a zero grade for the assignment. When it cannot be clearly established who actually did the copying, all assignments involved will receive zero grades. It is acceptable to discuss the assignment with fellow students or with me, but only about general methods of attack, overall design issues, clearing up trivial syntax errors, etc. Hint: it is far better to turn in an assignment a day or so late than to engage in plagiarism! Be sure to QUIT the Turbo environment in the Lab when you leave (you will see the Lab menu on the screen). Save all your files on your own diskettes, never on hard drives on Lab computers. Discard printed copies of your programs (properly torn up) well away from the computer Labs--do not allow anyone to see or use your discarded printer scrap!

Discard printed copies of your programs (properly torn up) well away from the computer Labs--do not allow anyone to see or use your discarded printer scrap!