About your homework grades

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This is an automatic message sent to all CS-10 students, Spring 2007
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Dear CS10 Students,

I've received emails from many of you about your homework grades. I have replied all of them. However, I would like to say the following to the whole class:

There have been cases where, as careful as I am, I made obvious mistakes in grading. For example, one lucky student got the comment "Perfect :)" from me on Triangle, and received 0/15 for credits!

When these obvious errors happen, please email me as soon as you can. Please include your full name and the email address you used when you turned in your code. Please also include a copy of my comment. I will send you back an apology, and will ask Dr Jacobson to update your grade accordingly.

If there isn't an obvious error, but rather a question or a dispute about my grading criteria, I encourage you to visit me during office hours or make an appointment (in case you can't make it to my office hours). So you can negotiate your score more easily.

You are welcome to email me, but if your question is about:
- Why didn't I get more partial credits?
- Sorry I submitted the wrong file. Can you re-grade this?
- My program compiles on my machine. Why didn't it compile on yours?
- I tested my programs so many times. Why didn't it pass your tests?
- etc. (anything about my subjective evaluation of your work.)
I may reply you with the following email:
http://cs10s07.blogspot.com/2007/04/common-email-from-me.html

In short, I may ask you to visit me during office hours. You may or may not get points back as a result of your visit. But you will get a better understanding of your scores.

:)
Sincerely,
- Mock