COMPSCI 250: Introduction to Computation

Ghazaleh Parvini

Winter 2021

Course Requirements and Grading

Your grade in COMPSCI 250 will be based on the following:

• Midterm Exam (20%): There will be one midterm exam, on Tuesday, December 29.
• Final Exam (25%):This will in the last week and will be cumulative, though with greater emphasis on the last third of the course. The public pages of previous course iterations have exams with solutions; links can be found on Moodle.
• Weekly Exams (40%): There will be four exams during the term. Together they will count for 40% of your final grade.
  There will be no Homework for this course. Instead you have weekly exams. Each weekly exam will test your knowledge on the material of the previous week.
• Discussions (10%): Attendance at the discussion sections is required and this portion of the course grade will be based on your attendance and participation. Participation will be measured by group responses to in-class writing assignments, usually based on "Excursion" sections of the text. You will be divided randomly into groups of 2-4 people and each group will hand in a response to the assignment. The lowest score will be dropped and the remainder will count for 10% of your total grade.
• Review Questions (5%): There will be one question each week which is similar to one of the problems you had in your last exam (weekly exam or midterm but not final). We will choose this question randomly. You should review your exam and start taking this quiz. You'll have 15 minutes to finish that.