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Video Lectures

• Lectures will be made available weekly, for a total of six weeks. In a given week, there will generally be 120-150 minutes of required material, plus additional optional material (some review, some advanced topics).
• On the right side of the lectures you can find PDFs of the slides (handwritten and typed versions).
• You can download the .mov file format of the lectures for offline viewing.

Weekly Programming Assignments and Problem Sets

• Each week (Monday at 12:00 AM PST) there will be a new problem set and a new programming assignment.
• The "soft deadline" is 14 days later (11:59 PM PDT on the second Sunday).
• The hard deadline is 11:59 PM PST on May 17, 2015.
• Submissions are not allowed after the hard deadline.
• Submissions in between the soft deadline and hard deadline will receive 50% credit.
• For each problem set you are allowed a maximum of two attempts (we'll use the best score).
• For each programming assignment you're allowed a maximum of 10 attempts (we'll use the best score).

Grading / Statement of Accomplishment

• The grading will be 30% problem sets, 30% programming questions, and 40% for the final exam.
• Each programming assignment and problem set will be scaled to 5 points.
• The final exam will be worth 40 points.
• Everybody earning at least 70 points receives a statement of accomplishment.

Theory Problems

• These are totally optional theory questions (no deadlines or credit given).
• We encourage you to attempt these questions and discuss them in the forums to develop a deeper understanding of the design and analysis of algorithms.