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The class will have a variety of different “work types” - each with its own timing, grading policy, and collection with other elements. I have had to come up with new names for some things.

We will use the workbooks from the regular 559 class as reading material, a guide to other reading material, and samples of programming problems to help students figure out what they understand (and do not understand). We won’t grade workbooks the way they are graded in the regular section (you can ignore the point values and “advanced” designations) - the instructions you get will tell you how to use each workbook. We will use all the workbooks from the regular class over the course of the semester (there are 10 “regular” workbooks, 2 “project” workbooks, and 2 “tutorial” workbooks). We might create more workbooks about new topics, or let students make their own workbooks.

An overview of the schedule for the class. You can see a detailed calendar on the CS559AH Canvas Calendar

The basic idea is that we will sprint through the 14 weeks of normal material in the first 9 weeks of class (before Spring break) and use the 5 weeks after break for student-directed projects.

During the first 9 weeks, we’ll have two 4-week segments (one on 2D, one on 3D). These segments will have 3 weeks of “content” followed by a week of “portfolio creation.”

The deadlines (in a more detailed course calendar) are on the CS559AH Canvas Calendar.