In this class there are no exams. Instead, there will be a number of compulsory assignments, and in order to pass the class you have to (1) pass all the compulsory assignments and (2) participate in two programming contests.

There will be 13 compulsory assignments:
- There is a new compulsory assignment published on Monday almost every week, related to the topic of the lectures of that week.
- An assignment will be a problem set consisting of x tasks, to pass the assignment you need to complete at least y of them successfully. Typically, x=4 and y=2 (see details in the Syllabus).
- The deadline to complete the assignment will be on the Sunday ~3 weeks after the topic of the assignment is covered in the lectures.
- If you miss even one deadline you fail the class.
Assignment format: The problem sets are found on the course judge, hosted by Kattis: https://uib.kattis.com/courses/INF237/spring19 You will need an account at Kattis; if you don't have one already, get one here: https://uib.kattis.com/register (if you already have an account at open.kattis, you don't need to register a new account)

You (also) need to register your Kattis user to this course specifically, by clicking I am a student taking this course and I want to register for it on Kattis on the page https://uib.kattis.com/courses/INF237/spring19. The secret key to be admitted will be revealed in the first lectures.

For each assignment, finish the following procedure before the deadline:
1. Solve the required number of problems on uib.kattis.
2. Find the problem set in the Assignments, and submit the requested information.

We will do two individual meetings with each of you to discuss your solutions. Each meeting takes approximately 30 minutes. If your are not able to explain your own solutions here, you will fail the course. The first meeting will most likely be in April. The second one will be in late May, early June. More information will follow in an announcement closer to the actual dates.
There will be two programming contests, attending these is compulsory to pass the course. The competitions will be during the time of the group sessions of INF237. Alternatively, participation in Google Hash Code or IDI Open will also count towards this requirement.

If you participate in more than two programming contests, you earn a wild card for each extra contest you participate in. You can thus earn up to two wild cards during the semester. A wild card gives you the opportunity to do one task less for one of the problem sets. You may not use more than one wild card on a single assignment.