CS251 - Computer Organization and Design - Spring 2008
Administrative Details
Instructor
Bill Cowan, [wW][mM][cC][oO][wW][aA][nN]@cgl.uwaterloo.ca, DC2111,
x34527.
Teaching Bureaucracy
- David Tausky
- Office hours - Tuesdays, 14.30 to 15.30, MC4065.
Location and Times of Lectures
- MC2034
- 14.30-15.20: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Newsgroup
Textbook
- Patterson & Hennessey, Computer Organization and Design,
third edition, revised printing, Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
Marking Scheme
- 20% assignments.
- 30% midterm examination.
- 50% final examination.
Students must have a passing average on the combined examinations to pass
the course. Here is my algorithm for calculating marks.
- mark1 = 0.20 * assignments + 0.30 * midterm + 0.50 * final
- mark2 = 0.375 * midterm + 0.625 * final
- if ( mark2 < 50% ) then you get mark2; otherwise you get mark1.
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