COMP8400 - Assignments

Important:

• From the date of return of your assignment you have 2 weeks in which to query you mark. After that time your mark is final.

• No group work is permitted for the assignment. We do encourage you to discuss your work in the labs and lectures, but we expect you to do the assignment work by yourself.

• We do take plagiarism seriously! You should read the chapter in the Department of Computer Science Student Handbook that discusses assessment (Chapter 6, pages 18-24), particularly the sections headed Misconduct in examinations (which also applies to assignments and other forms of assessment) and Collaborations versus misconduct in assignments.

  If you do include material from some other documents (e.g. graphics and figures, tables or formulas extracted from a paper, a book or a Web site), then you clearly have to make attribution, for example by writing the name of the paper, book, etc., and where you got it from.

• Please make sure you have read the COMP8400 assessment scheme, and that you understand it (if not please discuss it with the course coordinator).

Assignment specifications and due dates

• Assignment 1:   Due Wednesday 6 May 2009, 5 pm.

  A marking guide is available. Please read it carefully as it explains where students have lost marks.

  The average mark was 10.07 (out of 15, corresponding to 67/100), with standard deviation ± 1.64.

• Assignment 2:   Due Wednesday 27 May 2009, 5 pm.

  A marking guide is available.

  Also, an example k-NN program is available (written in Python)

  The average mark was 12.72 (out of 15, corresponding to 84/100), with standard deviation ± 2.02.