Written assignments: Homeworks should be written up clearly and succinctly; you may lose points if your answers are unclear or unnecessarily complicated. Here is an example of what we are looking for. You are encouraged to use LaTeX to writeup your homeworks (here's a template), but this is not a requirement.

Programming assignments: The grader runs on Python 2.7, which is not guaranteed to work with newer versions (Python 3) or older versions (below 2.7). Please use Python 2.7 to develop your code.

Although we recommend that you use a UNIX environment (e.g., Linux or OS X), the sanity check script grader.py should work on Windows as well. Note that no matter what OS you use, you will need to submit the assignments on corn machines. The final grading will be run on Linux servers.

The submitted code will not be graded if it has one of the following issues:

• The code does not run on corn.stanford.edu. In particular, Python packages outside the standard library are not guaranteed to work.
• The code quits unexpectedly. To prevent this, do not use quit(), exit(), sys.exit(), os._exit().
• The code reads external resources other than the files given in the assignment.
• The code is malicious. This is considered a violation of the honor code. The score of the assignment will be zero (0) and the incident will be reported to the Office of Judicial Affairs.

Collaboration policy and honor code: You are free to form study groups and discuss homeworks and projects. However, you must write up homeworks and code from scratch independently. The following are considered to be honor code violations:

• Looking at the writeup or code of another student.
• Showing your writeup or code to another student.
• Discussing homework problems in such detail that your solution (writeup or code) is almost identical to another student's answer.
• Uploading your writeup or code to a public repository (e.g. github, bitbucket, pastebin) so that it can be accessed by other students.
• Looking at solutions from previous years' homeworks - either official or written up by another student.

When debugging code together, you are only allowed to look at the input-output behavior of each other's programs (so you should write good test cases!). It is important to remember that even if you didn't copy but just gave another student your solution, you are still violating the honor code, so please be careful. We periodically run similarity-detection software over all submitted student programs, including programs from past quarters and any solutions found online on public websites. Anyone violating the honor code will be referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs. If you feel like you made a mistake (it can happen, especially under time pressure!), please reach out to Percy or the head CA; the consequences will be much less severe than if we approach you.

Electronic Submission: All assignments (homework problems and project milestones) must be submitted using the submit script by 11pm (23:00, not 23:59). Please note that the submission script only works on corn so please don't submit on myth.

To submit:

1. Copy your submission files (usually writeup.pdf and submission.py) to corn.stanford.edu. You can use a graphical interface (SecureFX, FileZilla, Fugu) or the following command:

   scp <your submission file(s)> <your SUNetID>@corn.stanford.edu:

2. Login to corn.stanford.edu:

   ssh <your SUNetID>@corn.stanford.edu

   For Windows, you can use SecureCRT, PuTTY, or Cygwin. Make sure you use the binary transfer mode, as the ASCII transfer mode will damage PDF files!

3. Make sure the code runs correctly on corn. (Otherwise, the code will not be graded.)

4. Type:

   /usr/bin/python /usr/class/cs221/WWW/submit.py <assignment ID> <directory with your submission files>

   For example, if the assignment ID is foundations and you are in the same directory as your submission files, type:

   /usr/bin/python /usr/class/cs221/WWW/submit.py foundations ./

You are allowed to submit an assignment a maximum of ten (10) times. Each submission will replace the previous.

Since we do not accept the assignments from other submission methods (e.g., email), please make sure you can use the submit script. Do not wait until the deadline. If anything goes wrong, please ask a question on Piazza or contact a course assistant. Do not email us your submission. Partial work is better than not submitting any work.

You will receive an email confirmation about your submission. For assignments with a programming component, we will automatically sanity check your code in some basic test cases, but we will grade your code on additional test cases. Important: just because you pass the basic test cases, you are by no means guaranteed to get full credit on the other test cases, so you should test the program more thoroughly yourself!

Unless the assignment instructs otherwise, all of your code modifications should be in submission.py and all of your written answers in writeup.pdf.

For the project milestones, make sure the same one member of your group submits on behalf of the entire group. The submission should include a group.txt file which should contain the SUNetIDs of the entire group, one per line. Do not include your names!

Late days: An assignment is $n$ days late if it was not turned in within $24(n-1)$ hours of the deadline. You have eight (8) late days in total that can be distributed among the assignments (except the final project report) without penalty, with a maximum of two (2) per assignment. The submit script will not accept any submission after the hard deadline, which is forty-eight (48) hours after the deadline, and you will receive a grade of zero.

If you use more than a total of eight (8) late days, we will subtract $(25 n)\%$ from the assignment grade where $n$ is the number of late days beyond the 8-day limit. Late days are applied chronologically (you do not get to choose which assignments to apply your late days). Note that you can still use only up to two (2) late days per assignment.

Regrades: If you believe that the course staff made an objective error in grading, then you may submit a regrade request. To do this, you must come in person to the owner CA in charge of the given homework or exam problem. Any requests submitted over email or on Piazza will be ignored. Remember that even if the grading seems harsh to you, the same rubric was used for everyone for fairness, so this is not sufficient justification for a regrade. If the regrade request is valid, the CA will add your request to the list, which will get processed.

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