The University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to making reasonable, effective and appropriate accommodations to meet the needs of students with disabilities and help create a barrier-free campus. If you have a documented disability on file with Disability Services, you may be eligible for reasonable accommodations in this course. If your disability requires an accommodation, please notify your instructors as early as possible in the course so that we may make arrangements in a timely manner.
We will guide ourselves by the university’s academic honesty policy and guidelines for classroom civility. You must read both of these.
Several factors determine your grade in this course. They are weighted approximately as follows:
Component | Weight |
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Project design | 30% |
Project implementation | 45% |
Participation in class discussions and activities | 10% |
Midterm exam | 15% |
The exact grading scheme may be adjusted during the course. However, a typical breakdown of percentages and final grades for this course are A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D (60-66), F (0-59).
Weeks | Topics |
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1-2 | Full-stack system components, Semester-long project selection |
3-4 | Project selection concludes. Project description presentations |
5-8 | Project design |
6-9 | Project refinement and implementation |
10-11 | Project presentations |
12-13 | Database security issues |