Official information can be obtained from the class Home Page. You should refer to this source any time you have specific questions about the assignments in the course; you may consider any materials presented on the homepage to be unquestionably true (This does not mean that it is impossible to find a mistake on the homepage, but rather that if you do your assignments as presented on the homepage, you can be sure that you are doing them "correctly"). I will attempt to also keep the home page up-to-date with respect to the content of the lecture materials, but this is not guaranteed. The page may contain other potentially interesting and entertaining information that may (or may not!) be related to the course.
Students are expected to do their own work. In this course, the policy is that it is ok to explain to someone else what to do on a particular assignment, but not how to do it. The simple rule-of-thumb here is: if you don't help someone else type in their program and you don't write down for them what to type in, you'll probably be ok. Example: Telling someone that he or she needs to write a function which does this is ok, but showing them yours isn't. Other issues of academic integrity are dealt with in the student handbook and these are considered part of the policy of this course. Violators of this policy will be dealt with severely.
We will be posting grades this quarter via a "secret code system." This is a system where you give us a (say five letter) secret code and we will post your grades with this as your name. You can give your TA your secret code by returning a copy of the student responsibilities sheet with a code during your first lab with: