Grade Calculation
In CS111, students complete the following written components: 1) exercises, 2) projects, 3) quizzes, 4) midterms, and 5) the final exam. In addition, they are excpected to be good citizens of their class communities.
In order to earn credit for this class, all the criteria below must be met:
- Your average of the three exams in this course (two midterms and the fixed final) must be greater than or equal to 65
- Your average in each of the other categories -- namely, quizzes, exercises, and projects -- must be greater than or equal to 75 in each category
- You have complied with the attendance and participation policy of your lecture and lab sections, which might interact with the two points above. (Consult with your instructors about the specifics.)
If the above criteria are met, you will earn credit for this class. If you meet only one of them, you will not earn credit for this class.
There are two notes associated with calculating your exam average:
- if your final exam score is greater than your lowest midterm score, we drop the lowest midterm score and average the final and the higher midterm score to calculate your exam average. For example, if the midterm scores are 65 and 75, and the final exam score is 70, then we average 70 and 75 for an exam average of 72.5 (without this rule, the exam average would be (65+75+70)/3 = 70).
- if you have an honor code violation in CS111, then the exam average required for passing will be raised from 65% to at least 75%, but we reserve the right to raise it even higher, depending on the nature of the honor code violation.
CS230 Recommendation
The CS111 team of instructors will give a recommendation of whether a CS111 student is prepared to take CS230 immediately after CS111, or if the student would benefit from taking another CS class prior to enrolling in CS230.
In order to get a positive recommendation to take CS230 immediately after CS111, all of the following criteria must be met:
- Your exam and quiz averages much both be ≥ 75%. Additionally, one of them must be ≥ 85%.
- Your exercises and projects averages must each be ≥ 85%.
- You must submit work for each of the 11 projects. In other words, you may not skip any of the projects.
- You must comply with the attendance and participation policy of your lecture and lab sections.
If the above criteria are not met by the end of the course, the CS111 student will not be recommended to take CS230 directly after CS111.
The CS111 team will give each student a recommendation for a subsequent CS class. We are offering CS200 (intended as a bridge course between CS111 and CS230), CS230P (lecture + labs + more practice), CS230 (lecture + labs), and CS230X (no labs). For those who do not meet the thresholds above but who are close (specifically, who have project & exercise scores >= 75% and who have quiz and exam scores each >= 70%) will be recommended for CS230P (but may wish to take CS200 or another preparatory class instead). Anyone else will not be recommended for CS230, and should consider taking CS200 or another class before taking CS230 (this course dependencies diagram shows which courses you can take after completing CS 111).
During the registration period for the following semester, an estimate based on your current scores will be used for a preliminary recommendation, but that recommendation can change depending on your status at the end of the course. In particular, if you register for next semester's CS230 or CS 230P based on a positive preliminary recommendation, but do not satisfy the recommendation criteria at the end of the course, your registration for CS230 or CS230P will be revoked.