Software Exercises

The software exercises are obligatory. To receive a passing grade in the course, all three software exercises must be completed satisfactorily (godkänd). Note, however, that late submissions will lose some or all points. See the additional remarks under item 11 below.
The software exercises are laboratory exercises (laborationer), and may be completed in small groups. Collaboration is permitted roughly as described in the documents Policy for Obligatory Exercises and Honor Code. More details will be provided later, when the descriptions of these exercises are distributed.
Each software exercise will be distributed approximately two weeks before its due date. To receive full credit, solutions must be submitted on or before the date and time stipulated. The rules are as follows:
- For each working day or fraction thereof that a software exercise is late, 5 points will be deducted from the score.
- In addition to the point total, each submission will also be marked as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Unsatisfactory submissions may be resubmitted to obtain a satisfactory evaluation. However, the point total cannot be increased by a resubmission.
- To receive a point score greater than 0, a software exercise must be submitted (for the first time) on or before the date of the first final examination. After that, submissions will only be graded as satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

Points for obligatory exercises do not carry over from previous years.
If all of the obligatory exercises from a previous year were completed, then credit for completing the obligatory exercises, with zero points, will be awarded for the current year upon explicit request on the part of the student. This will not be done automatically; the student must make an explicit request.
Submissions from different years cannot be mixed. Either credit is awarded for all exercises completed in a previous year, or else all exercises for the current year must be completed.
To the extent that the problems are similar, work from solutions developed in previous years may be used in solutions for the current year. Such re-use must be explicitly acknowledged, and may not be shared with partners who were not part of development of the original solutions.