ASSIGNMENTS and EXAMS

ASSIGNMENTS and EXAMS (CSE 513)

Textbook Assignments & Exams Tasks Planning Course Materials Topics & Objectives Grades & Policies

Homework Assignments

Homework #1 (due on Wed 10/05) (Solutions)

Homework #2 (due on Mon 10/24) (Solutions)

WebCt Quiz

Quiz will be posted on WebCT on Mon 10/31 ( last day for submission: Thu 11/10)

Programming Assignment

        Project Assignment (due on Wed 11/09) Return your programs in a floppy!

        Project Presentations on Wed 11/09 and Mon 11/14.

The Lab 239DH at the CSE department is available for your programming assignment.

The programming task is assigned to the whole group. It should be demonstrated in the class on the due date. The group will have ten minutes to explain briefly the code and show some input / output data. Graphical user interfaces are recommended but not a must. The group should prepare the computer to use during the demonstration as well as test their program in a particular JAVA software prior to the due data.

Please use the peer evaluations form to evaluate your group for the final project. Be sure to also evaluate yourself. All members must complete this form and return it in a sealed envelope!

Written/Oral Reports

A written report is about a topic related to the OS course. It should be a contiguous section that was not covered during the class. You can choose topics from the text book (case studies such as threads (or processes) management in Windows XP, or in Linux are encouraged) or from any other source. The written reports of one page should be well-written and well-summarized (a word document will suffice). A hard copy should be handed to the instructor on the due date below. The students are divided into groups of three or four. Each student is within the same group chosen in programming assignments. Each group has to hand one and only one written report.

An oral presentation (using Power-Point) of the written report's contents is required in the due date. Each student within a group will have five minutes of oral presentation.

The total grade is the fusion of the written report grade (assigned to the group) and the oral presentation grade (which is individual).

Written Report due on Mon 11/21

Oral presentations on Wed 11/23 & Mon 11/28
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Some Advices for Oral Presentations:

Concepts Definition and Illustrations:
In general, The predominant feature that appears in most of oral presentations is the "degree of fuzziness" of what is intended to be explained. It would be better if the speaker give examples and illustrations rather than trying to define an abstract concept or object. The pattern recognition course has many abstract features that are often understood by illustrations.

Density of the Slides:
Slides should not contain so much information but just few points (maximum 3 or 4 points !). Each point should be associated with an idea that the student expresses with examples or illustrations. Therefore, the speaker makes also the task very easy to him and to the audience.

Reading or Summarizing:
The speaker should never read what is in the slides since the audience is able to read that contents. He should say something that it is absent in the slides such as meta-information (or annotations). Reading the slides completely is a big mistake! The speaker needs to summarize the idea of the slides and maybe say more than that.

Clarity of Presentation:
A presentation is also clear if the speaker can be heard very well (speaks loudly!), and not too slow in order that the audience will not get asleep. He should make some variation in tone regularly. He should not hide the screen by putting himself or herself as a barrier between the audience and the screen. Besides, if he is using a projector then pinpointing on the slide with an object is better than pinpointing with the object on the projected screen.

Too Much Details:
Finally, the speaker should not provide too much details, he should know what is important and what is not in order to be able to respect the time allocated for this presentation.

Some Advices for Written Presentations:

Plan of the Written Report:
A written report should contain the plan of what the student is intending to report about the papers read. The student should also introduce the topic read, criticize the paper and conclude his written report.

References or Bibliography:
References are the papers that the student has read and used in his report unlike bibliography is the list of papers that he has read but not necessarily mentioned in the report.

Message Conveyed:
A written report even subdivided into different parts should convey a unified message. Very often users do not like reports that convey many ideas.

A Summary and not a Paper Shortening:
The students should summarize the papers or books read and not shorten and eliminate relevant passages from this documentation.

The grades for the oral/written reports will be given with respect to all these criteria described in the oral and the written presentation.

Textbook Assignments & Exams Tasks Planning Course Materials Topics & Objectives Grades & Policies