Grading and workload
Marks from 0 to 10 will evaluate the following activities:
Semester activity (weight in final mark: 60% )
  - Labs and lectures attendance (weight:10%)
  - Lab activity+homework (weight: 20 %)
  - 2 Tests (weights: 15%+15%)
Final verification (weight in final mark: 40% )

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 two tests are scheduled during the semester (nov. and dec.). 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 one missed or poorly done test could be redone.

4. Final verification
A programming proficiency final test consisting in answering exam questions and open-book development of a Java, GUI-based application. The final verification is scheduled in the last two weeks of the semester.

A mark less than 5 at the final verification, whether other marks are, obstacles the exam passing.