Tik-79.240 Special Course on
Computational Complexity

Autumn 2000

Practical arrangements

• The course is passed by
  • giving two seminar talks and
  • solving home assignments.
• Seminar talks are 45 min each but no written report is required.
• There will be 2 home assignments/week.
• See the program of the course for the given home assignments.
• The deadline for returning the assignments is two weeks from the lecture where they were given.
• When returning your assignments to the assistant please have your name, study book number (opintokirjannumero) as well as the number of the assignment on your answer.
• Each assignment is graded with the scale 0-2.
• There is a fall-back deadline for all home assignments: Jan 15, 2001.
  But for assignments returned by the fall-back deadline the scale is 0-1.5.
• The grade of the course is determined by the points earned from the home assignments and there is no final exam.
• The grade of the course is determined according to the following table.

  Grade/lower bound (from Max points 52)
  1 / 50 % (26 p)
  2 / 57 % (29.5 p)
  3 / 64 % (33.5 p)
  4 / 71 % (37 p)
  5 / 78 % (40.5 p)
  

• There are 5 EXTRA BONUS assignments for the course. By solving bonus assignments you can increase your total points but they do not affect point limits for the grades. The bonus assignments are graded with the scale 0-1.5 and the deadline for returning bonus assignments is also Jan 15, 2001.