Students are responsible for material that is disseminated during class. If you miss class, please arrange beforehand with a friend to get notes/handouts for you. If you know you are going to miss something important, contact the instructor beforehand. It's much easier to accommodate planned absences.
Students are responsible for all material taught in this course. If you join the class later in the quarter, you are expected to complete all missed work immediately.
Attendance is part of your grade.
Announcements will be emailed to your UCI Net ID / Login through an EEE managed class mailing list. Please make sure it is set up properly and being forwarded to whichever account you normally read email from. Make sure it is not on your spam list or being filtered as junk mail.
Many other announcements will be made in class as well.
An email has been sent to the class mailing list. If you did not receive it, please investigate the problem so that you do not miss required information.
To make sure that the class staff see your email, please include the class code, "[INF 241]" , at the beginning of the subject line. If you do not get a response to the email in 24 hours (except weekends), please resend it or talk to me after class. I recommend also cc'ing the EEE class mailing list on non-personal issues so that the entire class benefits from the discussion.
If you find that you are unable to make it to a scheduled event (class, exam, presentation, etc.) due to sickness, please get some documentation from a health care provider to assist us in maintaining fairness to the other students in the class. In the absence of such documentation, please contact the staff as soon as you realize that you are going to miss a scheduled event. Generally sicknesses will be treated on a case by case basis. We will accommodate you as best as we can depending on the circumstances.
Please familiarize yourself with the latest UCI academic honesty policy: http://www.editor.uci.edu/catalogue/appx/appx.2.htm.
In a nutshell - you may never use anyone else's work without clearly acknowledging the source. This includes code you find on the web, text from books, and answers from friends. If an assignment requires you to do the work yourself, then acknowledging the source of an answer does not fulfill the requirements of the assignment.
Plagiarism is any work that you use that you did not create and do not credit. The ACM publishes a more detailed definition here. If you plagiarize another work without crediting the source, you will receive a failing grade for the entire course at the discretion of the instructor.
This has happened in my courses before, it has happened in conferences that I have chaired and I have sat in conferences in which others have presented my work verbatim. In each of these cases I took the harshest possible recourse available to me at the time. Our global academic system relies on properly creditting sources for everything to function. I have kicked students out of UCI for cheating in my courses.
It takes 2 seconds to cite your source. If you want to be intellectually lazy, do something else with your life.
Any student who feels he or she may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability, religious observance (or anything else) should contact me privately to discuss his or her specific needs. If appropriate, contact the Disability Services Center at (949) 824-7494 as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.