The final covers lecture, text, and lab. Your grade thus reflects your attendance. This course carries about twice the credit of most non-lab courses, so you should expect much above an ordinary course's work load. Read each exercise's explanatory text before attending lab. I do not drop the lowest exam or quiz score.
Exams are cumulative, particularly the comprehensive final.
I cannot give a final exam earlier than its scheduled date, but I will schedule it for a later date if you have three or more finals on the same date as ours. As you take notes, keep it in mind that frantically recording and subsequently memorizing my every word is far less important than to be able to use those facts that you can remember. I strongly suggest that you study by writing potential exam questions from your notes on the left side of a sheet of paper, and answers to the right. This forces you to reread your notes, and it provides you with a condensed study guide. N. C. Heywood maintains this page, last updated 21AUG01.