Didactic Concept
Weekly lectures and corresponding online question times set the pace of working out the subject matter. Almost weekly programming tasks have to be solved in small teams (3 team members). To achieve the goals it is important that students find their own individual approaches; the way to the solution is more important than the solution itself.
ECTS Breakdown
(6 ECTS is 150 hours)
- 99.7 h - Working on 9 programming assignments (including the individual development of practical skills)
- 00.3 h - Discussion of programming assignments (interview meeting)
- 21.0 h - Lectures
- 27.0 h - Working out the (more theoretical) topics, question times, preparation for exam
- 02.0 h - Participation in two tests and proportionately in the third test
Registration
You have to register for the course and one of the many groups named ppXn, where X determines the mentoring tutor and n is a consecutive number.
German
The course is given in German. The German version of this page contains more detailed infomation than the English one. Please press the "Deutsch" button.
Overall Assessment
Successful completion of the course requires the achievement of at least 50% of the acquirable points for the exercises as well as 50% of the acquirable points for the written tests.
If the rating of the course is positive, the mark results from the average of the percentages of achievements for exercises and written tests:
- : 87.5% to 100% (sehr gut)
- : 75% to below 87.5% (gut)
- : 62.5% to below 75% (befriedigend)
- : 50% to below 62.5% (genügend)
Assessment of Exercises
Solutions of the programming tasks will not be finally rated shortly after delivery, but only after taking part in an interview meeting toward the end of the semester. The final rating depends on the quality of the solutions and also the quality of the collaboration within the exercise group. To assess the quality of collaboration, group members must show that they understand their own solutions and decisions. There will be feedback (by e-mail) on the quality of solutions about one or two weeks after delivery of the solutions. The interview meeting will be based on this feedback.
The rating is expressed in achieved 'points' depending on the quality of solutions and collaboration. For the initial phase (this is, the first three exercises together) tutors propose a preliminary rating with up to 100 points, depending on timeliness, completeness and correctness of the solutions (especially in respect of requests to eliminate specific shortcomings in solutions delivered earlier). Solutions of further six exercises are rated by lecturers with up to 100 points each, depending on the quality (based on quality criteria specified in the task). However, in case of extending the delivery deadline for an exercise group by one week, the rating of the solution of this group will be reduced by 1/3 of the points that would have been achieved otherwise. The rating of all exercises together is the sum of the points for each exercise (initial phase and further exercises). As described above, this rating is preliminary and can be modified in the interview meeting depending on the quality of collaboration within the exercise group. Up to 700 points can be achieved for the exercises, this is 100%. For successful exercises it is necessary to achieve at least 50%, this is 350 points.
Assessment of Tests
Participation in three written tests with a working time of 45 minutes each will be offered. The first test (about in the middle of the semester) concentrates on the topics discussed in the lectures so far. The second test (toward the end of the semester) concentrates of the remaining topics. The third test (after the semester break) embraces all topics of the course. Each test is rated with up to 100 points depending on the correctness of the answers. When participating in all three tests, the result of the test with the smallest number of points does not count. Therefore, it is easily possible to forgo one of the tests (not participating in a test has the same effect as getting 0 points for the test). Overall, 200 points are achievable for tests, this is 100%. For successful tests it is necessary to achieve at least 50%, this is 100 points.
