Your final grade will be based on your participation in the class. The points given here are indicators of your participation, but they are mainly for showing how important these different activities are compared to each other. I will not give grades strictly on points accumulated. I want you to work on these problems and if you convince me that you did, you'll get a good grade regardless of the actual number of points you received. Of course if you accumulate a lot of points you convince me that you're working hard. Notice that potentially the largest one submission "gain" can be achieved through constructive suggestions to improve Fulton's book.
Before you submit a CORRECTION to Fulton's book, check to see if it has already been submitted. If you submit a new one you receive 1 point for a typo and 2-50 points for constructive suggestions (e.g., "there's a logical mistake here, and here is how to correct it" or "it would be much better for the reader if this proof was phrased this way")
If you submit a SOLUTION to a HW problem, you will receive the number
of points listed for the problem on the HW list.
You may submit solutions to problems that have already been "solved"
by others. I ask you, however, not to copy an already submitted
solution. If you'd like to keep working on a problem, do not look at a
submitted solution until you have your own.
You may work in teams, in which case please include the team members'
username with the submission. Do not submit multiple copies of the
same work. If you have a group that works together regularly, then you
may register a username for the group and submit the solution under
that username. In this case let me know who is included
in the group.
If your solution is reviewed by someone and found correct, you will
receive an additional 2 points. You cannot review your own work. If it
is reviewed and found incorrect you will lose some points based on how
serious the error is.
To write a REVIEW, you have to decide whether the solution is correct
or not and be able to support your opinion. The first (submitted)
REVIEW of any solution is worth 1-3 points if correct. However you
lose 1 point if you say a solution is good when it is not (in other
words you get -1 for the review). You may submit a review for a
solution that has been reviewed only if the first review is less than
a day old. The second review of the same solution is worth 1-2 points,
the third is worth 1 point and any subsequent one will have only
intellectual value. However, if you disagree with a submitted review,
you may submit a "competing" review at any time.
Check the
instructions on how to submit and please use
the guidelines.
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