Overview

Note: attendance of and participation in the lecture sessions are expected, and will include graded activities!

Lecture: Mondays at 15:15 - 17:00 in CM 1 3
Exercise Session: Mondays at 17:15 - 18:00 in INM202
Unsupervised collaboration: Thursdays, 08:15-10:00, BS160 and BS170

Course Staff

Professor: Bryan Ford
TAs: Ant Srikanth
AEs: Sanem Sarioglu, Nikita Karpachev, Srushti Singh
The CS-234 staff can be reached by email, on Ed, and during exercise sessions.

Assessments

In-semester coursework make up 50% of the final grade, and the Final Exam accounts for the other 50%.

• HW #1 (5%): Graded
  • Usenet (due Oct 13 @ 23:59)
• HW #2 (10%): Peer Review Assignment: Graded.
  • Part 1 (5%): Write Up (due Oct 18 @ 23:59)
  • Part 2 (3%): Peer Review (due Oct 26 @ 23:59)
  • Part 3 (2%): Metareview (due Nov 1 @ 23:59)
• HW #3 (20%): Collective Problem Solving
  • Problem Proposal due Nov 7 @ 23:59
  • Comment on Assigned Proposal due Nov 9 @ 23:59
  • Comment on other proposals due Nov 10 @ 23:59
  • Responding to Comments due Nov 13 @ 23:59
  • Proposal Voting due Nov 14 @ 23:59
  • Team Assignments due Nov 16 @ 12:00
  • Final Presentations Poll closes at Nov 21 @ 23:59 (not graded).
  • Information Gathering & Solution Proposals due Friday Dec 1 @ 23:59
  • Discussion & Feedback due Tuesday, Dec 5 @ 23:59
  • Presentations due Thursday, Dec 7 @ 7:00
  • Oral Presentations: Dec 7 (8:15 - 10:00) & 8th (13:15 - 14:00).
  • Final Approval Voting + Peer Evaluations due Thursday, Dec 21 @ 23:59
• HW #4 (5%): Ethereum Smart Contract
  • Part 1: Dec 11 @ 23:59.
  • Part 2 & 3: Dec 21 @ 23:59.

Quizzes:

• Quiz #1: Oct 13th
• Quiz #2: Nov 3rd
• Quiz #3: Nov 24th
• Quiz #4: Dec 22nd