Assessment 3
Instructions
Assessment 3 will be available on Gradescope on Friday, 12PM pacific time here. If you have sent me an OAE letter, you can use the same link, as I have put in a time extension for you.
Answers should be concise, with no more than 200 words per question. We are not going to count words, but if your answer feels way longer than 200 words, we reserve the right to grade only the first 200 words.
You may take this assessment in any 3-hour window as long as you finish before Monday, 8/23 at 11PM PT. CAs will be monitoring Ed for assessment questions during the following times, and will aim to answer questions within 15 minutes:
- Friday 7-9PM PT
- Saturday 9-11am, 1-3pm, 6-8pm PT
- Sunday 1-3pm, 4-6pm, 7-9pm PT
- Monday 1-3pm, 6-8pm PT
Note that while you are taking the assessment, you may only ask clarifying questions about the assessment itself, not about course material. (We may enforce this using timestamps from Gradescope and Ed.) You’re welcome to take the assessment outside of these on-call hours, but we may have a longer response time. Hopefully, if we have written the assessment well, you won’t have any questions :)
If you have conceptual questions before starting the assessment, you’re welcome to ask on Ed as a private question at any time, but we may not respond with the same urgency as assessment clarification questions.
One last thing: Take a deep breath! You can do this! This assessment is really not supposed to be a big, stressful thing. It’s a small part of your grade and is graded on a square-root curve, so that a 100% stays a 100%, 81% becomes 90%, 64% becomes 80%, and so on. You will do great!!
The Honor Code
The Honor Code policies are a critical part of the assessments (see the general information handout on the main course homepage) and we expect you to uphold your obligations as for any other coursework.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of what resources are permitted and not:
Permitted
- You may access the textbooks and other books in printed or digital form
- You may look at any materials on the course website (lecture slides, lab problems, practice materials, etc.), read previous conversations on our discussion forum, and review your own code on Myth
- You may use the myth machines to run code, although we generally don’t recommend spending your time doing this
- You may search online to find resource material related to course content
- You may make a private post on the discussion forum to ask a clarifying question about the assessment content
Not Permitted
- You must not make a public post on the discussion forum discussing any assessment content
- You must not post content from an assessment on any online site or seek help from a forum such as Stack Overflow
- You must not discuss an assessment content with any person (other than the course staff) during the entire assessment window
- You must not share your answers with other students nor ask other students to share their answers with you