Course Policies
House Keeping
- Please no food, but coffee, water, etc. is OK.
- Please no open laptop, or cell phone activity. I need your attention to keep mine.
- Please be attentive to timeliness. Classes will always begin and end on schedule.
- Readings and Homework assignments will be posted on the blog page. Please be careful about due dates.
Homework
Homework is an essential part of our course. Here are my expectations:
- Homework is due when it is due. If you have been unable to complete the homework, please just hand in what you have been able to do.
- Homework presentation deserves some professionalism. Your pages should be stapled with a high-quality stapler. Your problems should be in order, and the solutions should be neatly written.
- Homework should be 80% or more your individual work, but some discussion and collaboration is acceptable. If you and a friend worked out a problem together, please say so on your HW solution.
- If you have made a serious effort on a problem and you are still stuck, you can get help from our TA.
- One of the ways that students can get in trouble is to forget that it is MUCH easier for two people to solve a problem than for one person to solve a problem.
- After the first five (or so) homeworks assignments they must be done in Latex. This is a valuable life skill and it actually adds to the learning experience.
- Please be keenly aware of the policies of the University of Pennsylvania on Academic Integrity.