The lecture meetings will be held in person on the Homewood campus. All students are generally expected to attend all course meetings and actively participate in all class activities. For your convenience, lectures will be recorded and made available (on the same day) for asynchronous viewing/reviewing.

The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this course, you must be honest and truthful, abiding by the Computer Science Academic Integrity Policy; please carefully study it. Please report any violations you witness to the instructor.

• All students with disabilities who require accommodations for this course should contact me at their earliest convenience to discuss their specific needs. If you have a documented disability, you must be registered with the JHU Office for Student Disability Services (385 Garland Hall; 410-516-4720; http://web.jhu.edu/disabilities/) to receive accommodations.

• If you are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, or other mental health-related concerns, please consider visiting the JHU Counseling Center. If you are concerned about a friend, please encourage that person to seek out our services. The Counseling Center is located at 3003 North Charles Street in Suite S-200 and can be reached at 410-516-8278 and online at http://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/counselingcenter/

I am committed to creating a classroom environment that values the diversity of experiences and perspectives that all students bring. Everyone here has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. I believe fostering an inclusive climate is important because research and my experience show that students who interact with peers who are different from themselves learn new things and experience tangible educational outcomes. Please join me in creating a welcoming and vibrant classroom climate. Note that you should expect to be challenged intellectually by me, the TAs, and your peers, and at times this may feel uncomfortable. Indeed, it can be helpful to be pushed sometimes in order to learn and grow. But at no time in this learning process should someone be singled out or treated unequally on the basis of any seen or unseen part of their identity.

If you ever have concerns in this course about harassment, discrimination, or any unequal treatment, or if you seek accommodations or resources, I invite you to share directly with me or the TAs. I promise that we will take your communication seriously and to seek mutually acceptable resolutions and accommodations. Reporting will never impact your course grade. You may also share concerns with the Department Head (Randal Burns, randal@cs.jhu.edu), the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Joanne Selinski, joanne@cs.jhu.edu), the Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion (Darlene Saporu, dsaporu@jhu.edu), or the Office of Institutional Equity (oie@jhu.edu). In handling reports, people will protect your privacy as much as possible, but faculty and staff are required to officially report information for some cases (e.g., sexual harassment).

• All students start the semester with a budget of five late days; however, you can only use at most two late days for any particular coursework.

• Each late day extends the deadline of coursework by precisely 24 hours.

• Late days cannot be used to delay a midterm/final exam.

• Late days have to be used in their entirety.

• You can only use a late day if you have one left in your budget.

You may not use any late days for the first and last homework. Please plan accordingly.

All you need to do to use a late day is to make fill out a digital request form (will be posted to the course discussion board) to inform the instructors that you will use your late day. Then, proceed to submit coursework after the deadline has expired through the regular submission. Of course, you must still have a late day available. Otherwise, the late-day request will be nullified.

It is your responsibility to keep track of the late days you've used.

It is okay if you change your mind about using a late day and submit by the deadline. However, you cannot change your mind and "get back" a late day after a deadline.

Late days are a valuable commodity, and you should use them sparingly. They are primarily intended to help you deal with unexpected circumstances, so you should not make them part of your normal planning process.

There is no grace period for assignment deadlines, only late days.

Each homework is expected to take between a few to several hours to complete. When you are given ten days to complete an assignment, we expect it to take on average 10 hours to be completed (1 hour per day). We advise you to start early and work an hour or two every day, instead of cramming everything close to the deadline.

From WSE Deans correspondence:

Religious holidays are valid reasons to be excused from class. Students who must miss a class or an examination because of a religious holiday must inform the instructor as early in the semester as possible to be excused from class or to make up any work that is missed.

I extend the same courtesy to cultural/national holidays and other engagements that cannot be avoided, such as athletics events, job interviews, etc.

Note that personal days (such as religious holidays) are usually not ground for an extension over a homework deadline. It would be best if you planned accordingly to avoid any conflict. For example, start early and plan on using your late days. Suppose you will need more than two permitted late-day for the affected homework. In that case, we can make an exception for you to use more days subject to having late days left in your budget. Please inform the instructor as early in the semester as possible about your intention of using (more than two) late days for specific homework.

Students may add a course up to Friday, February 4, 2022. They may drop a course until Sunday, March 6, 2022 provided they remain registered for a minimum of 12 credits. Between March 7 and April 15, a student may withdraw from a course with a $W$ on their academic record. The course will remain on the academic record with a $W$ appearing in the grade column to indicate that the student registered and then withdrew from the it.

For more information on these and other academic policies, see https://e-catalogue.jhu.edu/engineering/full-time-residential-programs/undergraduate-policies/academic-policies/grading-policies/.

A request for an "Incomplete" grade in this course will only be considered if you have already completed the coursework up to and including the second midterm. Exceptions may be made at the instructor's discretion on a case-by-case basis.