There are no tests or longer term assignments. For the most part, projects will be worked on independently, though discussion of general strategies and techniques among students is expected. Course lectures are designed to lead directly into the weekly project, so class attendance is important. While students are encouraged to help one another in understanding the complexities involved in this course by providing mentoring and explanations, individuals may not share code in the form of complete Java source files. The course format is entirely instructor lecture with considerable time for student questions.
Final grades are an average of weekly assignment grades with the lowest grade dropped.
The weekly assignments will be graded by a well defined set of criteria that will be made explicit before each assignment. For the most part, these will involve software performance tests rather than coding techniques, organization, code architecture, etc. Class 10 March 8 Enterprise Java Beans, cont.