Assessment

Assessment is based on the answers you give to the exercises included in the course. You should write down these answers along with any notes you wish to make in your lab book. Generally your answers should include printed listings of programs you write or modify and printed output from tests you have run to demonstrate that your program works.

Your answers will be assessed on the following criteria:

• quality and correctness of the answer -- applies to both written answers and program listings and output;
• code presentation -- your programs should be clearly laid out with appropriate use of variable/method names, comments and indentation;
• programming style -- solutions should be simple, efficient and effective.
• testing -- when appropriate, you need to demonstrate that your program works by testing its key features and comparing the resulting output with what you expected, e.g. a result calculated by hand. Make sure you write this down! You can't get marks for it, if it's only in your head.

Your final mark will be based on a subset of the exercises, but you must still attempt all of them. A few exercises may be worked through as examples in class if they are posing particular problems or raise interesting issues. The maximum marks for each exercise are shown beside the exercise in the script.

At the end of the course you must hand in for marking:

• your lab notebook, containing the answers, notes and printout described above;
• your programs: just the .java files, no .class files please, will be collected via turnitin, You will be given instructions for this later.
• include a table relating exercise numbers to program files names in your notebook.

You will be told where and when to hand in your book during the course.