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