Quiz and final exam resources

A set of five quizzes will be run in the labs but using VIULearn, roughly every two weeks starting in late September.

Quizzes will be issued through VIULearn, each quiz will take roughly 50 minutes to complete and will be available over a three-day time period (see the tentative quiz schedule below).

The quizzes will be worth 6% each for a total of 30% of your final grade.

Your final exam mark can be used to replace one lower quiz mark.


Final Exam

The final exam will be worth 25% of your total grade and will be held as a "take-home" style of exam on VIULearn during the scheduled VIU exam period. It will be available from 8am Dec. 12th (the first day of the exam period) to 8pm Dec. 21st (the final day of the exam period).
It is only intended to take roughly 3 hours to complete, but no actual time limit will be enforced and you will be able to complete the exam across multiple sessions.
It will be open book, open notes, use of typical course software (git, gdb, etc) is permitted, but the exams must of course be completed as strictly individual efforts: no communication about the exam questions or content with anyone but the course instructor during the days the exam is available.

The exam must be written and submitted as specified. Exceptions will only be made for officially documented illnesses or emergencies, in which case the student is expected to contact their instructor as soon as they are able return to university and arrange for a make-up exam to be taken as soon as possible. Note that the make-up exam will NOT be the same exam given to the rest of the class.

In terms of prep/review: