• Transparent
• Clearly defined criteria for each grade
• No limits on how many students can get any particular grade
• No curve
• No preset or target median
• The only student in the course who affects your grade is you

• Short assignments
 Brief
 Usually due at start of next MWF class
 Not accepted late
 Graded 0–3
• Lab assignments
 More involved
 Have at least a week; due at start of a Monday class
 Accepted late, but with penalty
 Graded on a 40-point scale
 Extra credit available
• Programming grade
 20% short assignments
 80% lab assignments

• Quizzes
 Taken online between lectures
 Very short
 Can retry each question until you get it right
• Exams
 2 midterms (Jan 28 & Feb 18, 6:00–9:00 pm) and a final exam (Mar 12, 11:30 am–2:30 pm)
 Review page, review session, and crib sheet
 Exam you do worst on counts only 2/3 of each of the other two
• Test grade
 5% quiz questions that you get right (should be all of them)
 95% exam grade

• From the ORC:
 A means excellent mastery
 B means good mastery
 C means acceptable mastery
 D means deficient in mastery
 E means serious deficiency in mastery
• For each letter grade, must achieve a level of mastery in both programming and tests
• Total percentage determines + or –
 50% programming grade
 50% test grade

• To get a letter grade of A
 Programming grade ≥ 92% and
 Test grade ≥ 90%
• If letter grade is A
 If total percentage ≥ 96%, grade is A
 Otherwise, grade is A–

• Otherwise, to get a letter grade of B
 Programming grade ≥ 85% and
 Test grade ≥ 75%
• If letter grade is B
 If total percentage ≥ 92%, grade is B+
 Otherwise, if total percentage ≥ 88%, grade is B
 Otherwise, grade is B–

• Otherwise, to get a letter grade of C
 Programming grade ≥ 80% and
 Test grade ≥ 60%
• If letter grade is C
 If total percentage ≥ 84%, grade is C+
 Otherwise, if total percentage ≥ 80%, grade is C
 Otherwise, grade is C–

• Otherwise, to get a grade of D
 Programming grade ≥ 65% and
 Test grade ≥ 50%
• Otherwise, grade is E

• Available in all lab assignments
• Can raise your course grade, depending on
 How much total extra credit you submit
 Your grade without extra credit
 By how little you missed the next higher grade
• Counted separately from basic grade
 Do the basic part first
 30 + 5 < 35 + 0