CNS   POLICIES

		  last revised: 9/13/06

Attendance
  You are expected to attend all of the lectures and are responsible
  for information discussed in class.  Some of that information may
  not be covered in the text or Web resources.

Grading
  
  CS494: Assignments: 50%   Midterm: 20%   Final: 30%  
  CS594: Assignments: 40%   Midterm: 20%   Paper: 20%  Final: 20%  
  (Midterm is in-class, open-book. Final exam will be an open-book, take-home.)

Assignments

  You are responsible for all reading material assigned as "required".

  You will usually have more than a week to work on each assignment.
  This will give you a chance to get started
  and ask questions in class before the assignment is due.
  Late is better than not at all, but there will be a penalty (up to 50%
  if assignment has been graded and discussed in class)
  
  For question-and-answer type assignments, work on your own.
  Submit your answers as instructed in the assignment.
  For email'd answers, submit simple flat ascii mail files,
  no attachments.

  For programming assignments, you may consult others for debugging assistance.
  Submitting someone else's work as your own will result in a 0.
  You must protect your files (chmod).
  Your program must run on the CS lab Linux engines.
  Programming assignments should include the following information in
  the source file:
        name
        asnmt #
        date
        description of problem and solution
        each function definition should have comments describing 
          its purpose, arguments, side effects,  and result
        any non-obvious code segments should be annotated
        no magic numbers (use #define where practical)
  programs will be graded on: effectiveness 80%  efficiency 10%  style 10%
  You must submit your source files (*.c *.h Makefile etc) as well
  as program output as specified in the assignment.  Place any
  required output in a file named ANSWERS.
  Use the script  594cns_submit to submit your source files,etc.
  The script is located in /usr/local/bin and described in
    https://www.cs.utk.edu/help/doku.php?id=accounts:submit
  also see "man submit"

  For capturing interactive sessions, cut&paste from your windows
  environment or learn about the UNIX script command.

Ethics and legal issues

   - as a result of this class, you will gain knowledge and tools that will
     allow you to mount unethical attacks against computers.  This is NOT the
     purpose of this class.  Please do not abuse your knowledge.

   - The US Government has laws prohibiting the export of cryptographic
     software.  Much of the software developed and examined in this class
     falls under these export restrictions.