Problem Sets: Overview

Problem sets are bi-weekly (as in one roughly every two weeks) programming exercises, intended to give you more hands-on experience applying course concepts.

Problem sets are completed independently.

Unlike labs, problem sets should be completed independently. You can ask the TAs (or me) for help, but each answer should reflect your own work.

Problem sets are graded for correctness.

Unlike labs, your grade on a problem set will reflect how many questions you answered correctly.

Note on auto-grading

Note that grading will be done using an auto-grader. This is a piece of software that will check your solutions to each problem and determine whether or not it is correct.

For the auto-grader to work correctly, it’s very important that you don’t edit or delete any notebook cells that contain an assert statement.