Weekly Problem Sets
- Problem sets will be released Thursdays by midnight (PST) through Ed, cover that week's lecture content, and are due the following Thursday at midnight (PST) on Gradescope.
- There will be 5 questions on each problem set: each question will have a difficulty level of 1-3 stars. Every week, select a combination of questions that add up to 6 stars in total. For example: two 1-star questions + two 2-star questions, or one 1-star question + one 2-star question + one 3-star question.
- Each question will be graded on a coarse 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1 scale, then multiplied by the star difficulty. For each week's assignment, a perfect score is 6 points.
- You may attempt all 5 questions, though you must indicate which questions you'd like to be counted for your homework score. We will provide feedback for the other questions but they will not contribute to your grade.
- You will have 5 late days in total to use on the written homeworks, and may use multiple late days per homework. if you use up your late days, you may turn in the assignments late with a flat 50% penalty.
- You can work on the homework in groups of up to 4 people (we strongly encourage it).
However, each student should independently write up their own solutions, and clearly list the names of their collaborators.
(A gentle reminder that failure to do so would be a violation of the honor code.)
- For any regrade requests and problem-related questions, you *must* attend the office hours of the corresponding TA (or TAs, some problems might have more than one associated TA). TAs will not handle homework-specific questions on problems other than their own.
Weekly Quizzes
- A list of 3-5 quiz questions will be released each Thursday along with the homeworks.
- The following Monday (time TBD), please enter the quiz queue on Zoom and wait for a TA to invite you to an interactive chat session. See Ed for more details on how to join!
- During the session, the TA will pick one question from the list of questions for you to answer.
- The quiz will be 1 on 1, but you are allowed to discuss and prepare for it with your homework partners.
- For 1/15 (MLK day) and 2/19 (President's day), the quiz session will be on Tuesday instead.
- For anyone with scheduling conflicts, please reach out to us via Ed to schedule a (potentially recurring) alternate timeslot for this quiz.