Grading and workload
Grade in the course will be earned / calculated as follows:
60% Semester activity
  - Labs and lectures attendance (5%)
  - Lab activity/homework assignments (25 %)
  - 2 Tests (15%+15%)
40% Final exam

1. Laboratory attendance
- Attending the labs is not optional: 12 lab sessions should be attended in order to have the total possible attendance points. You can miss two lab sessions without losing points.

2. Homework
- Every weekend a pre-lab assignment for the following week's lab will be posted on the web.
- The students are expected to work the pre-lab exercises by themselves as homework before the next lab. All homework should be completed before the lab and ready to be defended during the lab.

3. Tests
Up to four tests are scheduled during the semester. Test grading has an important weight in the final mark.
Note. If sincere effort was made during regular scheduled lab, in order to obtain a better final grade, up to two missed or poorly done test could be redone.

4. Final examination
A 135 minutes, open-book, programming proficiency test consisting in a Java GUI-based application in development.