Homework will be collected via Gradescope. Find more information about that here.
You can help yourself out (and improve your grades) if you:
If you use R, it is often easiest to create an R Markdown document with your work. Gradescope will allow you to submit homeowrk that is partly done by hand and partly using RMarkdown.
The primary purpose of the homework is to help you reinforce concepts and practice techniques. It is to make sure you are understanding the material covered in class, to help you generate questions when you don’t, and to provide me with feedback about how you are doing (as individuals and as a class).
Problems will typically be graded out of a small number of points
(like 3).
In this case, 3 indicates an essentially correct solution, 2 indicates a
good attempt with some oversight or technical flaw, 1 indicates an
attempt with more serious errors.
In addition, I may write comments on your papers. Be sure to read these,
even if you were awarded full or nearly full marks for a problem.
In general, you may discuss homework problems with other students, and I encourage you to do so. But the written solutions you submit must be your own work and not simply a copy of another student’s work.
There may be special problems assigned for which no collaboration with others is allowed. In particular, no collaboration is permitted on any take-home problems associated with exams. It will be made clear if collaboration is not allowed on an assigned problem.
Of course, cheating on tests or the final exam is not allowed. Cheating includes the use of unauthorized notes or devices, copying from another student, or consciously allowing another student to copy from your work. Details of Calvin’s policy on academic integrity can be found in the College’s Student Conduct Code
Comments on Assignments
Sometimes I will make comments on particular problems or assignments. I’ll post those here.