Homework timetable

Solutions to homework must be turned in no paper no later than the Tuesday before the exercise session at 15:00 o'clock. This is a strict deadline.  Drop your homework into the bag attached to the door of office B233.

The problems will be appear on the course web page during the previous Wednesday at the latest. The graded homework will be returned to students at the exercise session.

Participation in the actual exercise sessions (Thu 14–16) is not compulsory, but it is your chance of asking questions and getting feedback (see below).

Grading of homework

Each problem will be graded by the course assistant on a scale 0–3 roughly as follows:

• 0: no significant progress
• 1: some correct ideas, progress in the right direction etc.
• 2: a good attempt but perhaps some key element is missing
• 3: basically a correct solution, with perhaps minor errors that do not affect the main idea.

Thus, unlike on some other courses, an honest but failed attempt will not get full credit. The difficulty of the problems varies, and some of them may require a bit of work and some insight.

Due to time constraints, the course assistant cannot give detailed written comments on your homework solutions. Also the actual grading is necessarily a little less careful than for exams. You are encouraged to come to the exercise session to see the intended solutions, ask for clarifications and, if you feel that you did not get the proper grade, to discuss it with the course assistant. However, remember that what is graded is the written solution you turned in, not any verbal notes that you can provide afterwards.  If the write-up is not comprehensible with a reasonable effort, this is reflected in the grade.

Please do not send detailed questions about the grading of homework by e-mail. If you are unable to attend the exercise session and pick up your homework, you may ask your grades for each problem, but for more feedback please attend the exercise session.

Cooperation and outside sources

The homework problems are intended to be solvable based on the material presented on the lectures. You may use any other helpful material you find in the library, on the Internet etc. You may also discuss the problems with other students, but each student is then expected to write down his or her final solution independently.

Problem situations

If you think the homework problems contain mistakes, are unclear, cannot be solved based on the material provided etc., please contact the lecturer Jyrki Kivinen so that possible fixes can be applied to the course web page without delay.