The course can only be completed by active participation in the course. Active participation means being active in the weekly exercices, completing the programming exercise, and passing the course exam. Only the course exam can be retaken, but it requires that all the other requirements of the course have been completed acceptably.

Teaching and Other Course Arrangements

Information on teaching and schedule is available here

The course includes

• 24-26 hours of lectures  (4 h / week),
• 7 weekly exercises,
• programming exercise,
• course exam (2,5 hours).

Passing the course by active participation requires

• taking the course exam (max. 40 points available,  min. 17 points required for passing the course),
• participating actively in the weekly exercices (max. 14 points available; at least one (1) point is required for passing the course),
• completing the programming exercise (max. 6 points available).

The grading is based on the total points achieved. A passing grade requires at least 30 points in total.

Exercises:

• Active participation in the exercises is a requirement and known to be very useful.
• Collecting exercise points requires active participation in exercises by preparing the answers to the exercise tasks before the exercise group meets. The answers need not to be perfect, but should  be in the right ballpark. In the beginning of the exercise session each student marks the tasks that she/he has completed into a name list (the name list is provided by the instructor). A marked task means that the student is prepared to present and explain her/his answer to the group.
• Each completed exercise task gives one exercise task point (ETP).
• In total there will be approx. 6 exercise tasks per week.  Roughly 1/3 ETPs out of max. ETPs gives one (1) exercise point that is the minimum required and 5/6 out of max. ETPs gives the maximum of 14 exercise points.