Rules
If any of the following four rules is not followed, you cannot pass the final exam in the current academic year:
Text books to buy for a total amount 300 euros
Compulsory attendance: at least 90% of the lectures
Three exam sessions, you choose one only
Max score for less than 98% attendance: 27 (out of 30)
Did it happen?
Did some of you have experienced any of the aforementioned points in the past? – Raise your hands if you were obliged:
to buy one or more books
to attend mandatorily a large part of the course for attending the final exam
not to participate to an exam session for some informal rule imposed by the professor
not to receive the maximum score if you attended the exam without addending the lectures
Rules - reprise
Let's see the rule of this course
No text books needed for passing the exam - the material can be found on the GitHub repository of the course
If you cannot attend, do not attend (even if attendance is recommended: you can ask questions)
At least six exam sessions per academic year
Max score one can obtain is 42 (out of 30)
Material
All the material is available in the GitHub repository of the course at https://github.com/essepuntato/comp-think/
Two kinds of objects:
slides: a summary of the topics introduced in the lectures - available few minutes before each lecture
lecture notes: an extensive text describing the topics introduced in all the lectures - available few minutes after each lecture
Have you found a mistake in the material? Please write me an email at silvio.peroni@unibo.it
Communications
A mailing list has been set up where I will send all the communication for the course
You need to mandatorily subscribe to it
Open a browser and go to https://www.dsa.unibo.it/
Log in with your University email
Look for the mailing list (
Liste docenti-studenti
) - the name of the list iscompthink1718
Subscribe to it (password needed, please ask it to me)
Then, you can send directly emails to silvio.peroni.compthink1718@studio.unibo.it
Course organisation
Theoretical part (30 hours), where I will introduce all the notions related to the course - no computer needed: every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for 15 lectures (today included)
Laboratorial part (16 hours), where Dr. Marilena Daquino will have some practical lectures on programming languages - computer needed here:
12 December: 15:30 - 18:30
14 December: 15:30 - 18:30
15 December: 12:30 - 15:30
18 December: 9:30 - 11:30
19 December: 15:30 - 18:30
20 December: 9:30 - 11:30
Exam
Two partial written examinations – they are not mandatory, but recommended – held during the lectures (no dates defined, surprise surprise): score <= 5 for each examination (max. score: 10)
Implementation of a project in Python: score <= 8
Oral colloquium on the project: -8 <= score <= 8
Final written examination: score <= 16
Total max. score: 42 (32 without the partial written examinations) out of 30
Final recommendation
Please do ask questions
There are no stupid questions
My answers can be odd though, sometime
Thus, in order to avoid such odd answers, I could ask you to be patient and wait for the next lecture, so as to provide you with the best possible answer ever