Thu, 20 Oct 2011, 23:12


To my students in EE 306:

Your lab1 grade is now available.  Please check it at your convenience.
You will need to use the SVN update command to get it.  The submission 
instructions page has the details for accessing it.

As I told you in class, there are two things you might consider doing 
with respect to lab 1:

1. Note whether the tests failed because you had a serious error in your
logic, or if they failed because of some silly mistake.  If you got a low
grade because some one mistake kept giving the wrong answer, we need to know
about it.  Send email to faruk@hps.utexas.edu clearly explaining what the
error was, and how to fix it.  Then fix the error and resubmit.  We will 
compare your new submission with your last submission, which we still have.  
If there are changes other than what is in your email, we will simply ignore 
your request for regrade.  If the only changes are what you state in your email, 
we will rerun all the tests.  You will then receive the grade that your changed
program earns, minus the amount subracted for the error.  I have seen cases 
where a 0 became a 90 because the error caused all tests to fail, and the fix 
caused all tests to pass, earning 100% - 90%, because the penalty for the 
error was 10 points.

This mechanism is available to you for ALL the labs, not just lab 1.

2. If your submission really was beyond salvage, you are free (for lab 1 only)
to rewrite the program and resubmit.  We will run the tests, and assign a grade.
The grade obtained by averaging that grade and your original grade is the grade
we will recorded for lab 1.  For example, suppose you got 10% on the lab, and 
your resubmission earns 100%.  The grade recorded would be 55.

Note Mechanism 1 is available to you for ALL labs.  Mechanism 2 is available 
to you for lab 1 ONLY.

I know you are eager to improve your grade on lab 1.  Nonetheless, I strongly
encourage you to leave lab 1 alone right now.  You have other things in 306
to deal with right now, for example lab 2, which will then be followed by
problem set 5 and then an exam on November 2.

You have until Sunday night, November 6, at 11:59pm to resubmit lab 1 for
regrade, either due to a silly mistake or due to a new understanding of the
material.  I suggest you work on it after the exam on November 2.

Good luck with the rest of the course.

Yale Patt