CPSC 231 Assignment 1: Marking

Your assignment will be assigned one of the following letter grades shown in the table below:

Your base mark will be determined by which features you have completed.

In order to attain one of these grade categories your program must meet the style requirements listed in the assignment description (e.g., code that is easy to read and understand, good naming conventions etc.) If your program is particular well (or poorly) written then your grade can be increased or decreased from one of the 4 letters grades.

• Your grade can be increased one letter 'step' (up one row in the grade table e.g., 'B' to 'B+') if it not only meets minimum style requirements but is very elegant and easy to read. Alternatively your grade can be increased by a letter step if the graphics that you drew went well beyond the norm of what was expected for this assignment.
• Your grade can be decreased one letter 'step' (down one row in the grade table e.g., 'A+' to 'A') if some style guidelines are violated (e.g., some magic numbers are used instead of named constants, poor naming conventions are used to name variables or constants).
• Your grade can be decreased two letter 'steps' (down two rows in the grade table e.g., 'C' to 'D+') if the style problems are so pervasive that the program becomes difficult to read and understand (e.g., no documentation, magic numbers are used throughout the program, the majority of variables or constants are poorly named, arithmetic expressions are overly complex).
• Your grade can be decreased by a full letter grade (down three rows in the grade table e.g., 'A' to 'B') if coding standards were completely ignored.