COSC345
Assessment 2020
Final Exam
The final examination is worth 60% of your final mark. Previous years' examination papers can be found in the library. You should also be able to view them on-line at Exam Papers Online.
During the exam, make sure you know what each question is asking for and that you have answered every part of your chosen questions.
Practical work
Assignment
The assignment consists of a major year-long project completed in teams of three or four people.
The practical work is worth 40% of your final mark.
In order to ensure that you receive the marks that your work entitles you to, you must ensure that your assignment is clearly marked with the names and student IDs of every student in the group. When the office report that marked assignments are available for collection, each of you should check that you have a received a mark.
You may (but need not) use our laboratories, as available.
Assessment for practical work is continuous during the year
and relates to both project management and final deliverables.
Due dates:
Assignment part 1, due: 3rd April 2020, worth 10%.
Assignment part 2, due: 29th May 2020, worth 10%.
Assignment part 3, due: probably 31st July 2020, worth 10%.
Assignment part 4, due: probably 25th September 2020, worth 10%.
On copying and assessment
You must abide by the University's rules about plagiarism. Since using existing code is a valued software engineering technique, you are allowed to include in your project material (text, diagrams, source code, data, whatever) written by other people, provided you
- obey the law: it must be material you have a legal right to use this way;
- clearly identify the material written by other people;
- prominently display the name of the original author(s) and provide any relevant publication details;
- write a “substantial” proportion of the whole program yourselves.
The word “substantial” is in quotes because there's no fixed proportion. It's just ordinary human fairness we're after. You should do honest work to get honest marks.
