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CS 228 Structured Probabilistic Models: Principles and Techniques Winter 2008 |
| Assignment In/Out Dates |
There will be four written assignments and three programming assignments. The written assignments will consist of four or five problems. Written assignments will be due two weeks after they go out, and programming assignments will be due two weeks and one day after they go out. The problem set and programming assignment descriptions are available on the handouts section of the webpage. Problem sets must be handed in to the submission box at the bottom of the Gates A wing (West) stairwell by the beginning of class on the day they are due. For instructions on submitting the Programming Assignments, see the submissions page.
| Reading Assignments/Quiz Schedule |
Each week, readings will be announced on or around Tuesday. We will try to make the quiz available by Wednesday, and it will be due Sunday night at 11:59 PM. We may sometimes include a couple light questions about material from the next week, and when we do, we'll announce what that material is.
The main Quiz page is located at: https://www.stanford.edu/class/cs228/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi (SUNet ID required).
The quiz will consist of 10 multiple choice questions, which are meant to be reading comprehension questions for the assigned reading. There is no time limit, but the quiz is designed to take around 10-15 minutes. The deadline for submitting is the Sunday the quiz is due at 11:59pm. Note that you can only take the quiz once.
There is a practice quiz ("Quiz 0") that you can take to familiarize yourself with the quiz software format -- of course, this will not count toward your grade. You can take the practice quiz multiple times. When you are ready for the real quiz, click on the appropriate link (e.g. "Quiz 1").
| Submission and Grading Details |
Programming assigments may be completed in teams of up to 2 students, will be implemented in MATLAB, and will typically require around 30-50 lines of coding. We will provide starter code and stubbed out functions that you will be implementing. The actually coding will tend to be relatively straightforward, so even students with little MATLAB experience should be able to complete the assignments. Late days also apply to programming assignments, and will be applied to everyone in the team. If you turn in a programming assignment one day late and you have no late days left, you will be penalized 20% while your partner will be deducted one late day.
There will be nine quizzes, which will be available online and due by Sunday night of each week. The quizzes are meant to be simple and evaluate your basic comprehension of the readings. They are designed to keep all students up with the material, allowing lectures to focus on the more complex issues. Each student's top eight (highest scoring) quizzes will count in the grade.
Quizzes will count for 10% of the final grade, analytical components of the homework will count for 40%, programming components will count for 30%, and the Final will count for the last 20%. Some extra credit may be awarded for class participation.
Please notify us immediately (by emailing cs228-qa@cs.stanford.edu) if there are any issues with the quiz or the website.
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