Exercise number 0 (Scribing), 4 (home exam) and 8 (home exam) are compulsory in order to be allowed to take the exam. The rest are not, but they are also important for the exam. All exercises in the textbook and in the mandatory exercises demonstrate possible exam questions. The compulsory exercises are graded as pass/fail, and all three must be passed in order to take the exam.

In order to gain experience with technical writing, each student will be required to prepare scribe notes for a single lecture. After taking careful notes in class, the scribes for a given lecture will jointly prepare a LaTeX document written in full prose understandable to a student who may have missed class. The LaTeX document, along with any image or auxiliary files, should be submitted to the staff list by e-mail within two days (excluding weekends) of the scribed lecture. After review, the scribe notes will be posted to the course website.

You should modify the NTNU scribe PDF example using the LaTeX template and additional files found in zip file.

More examples using a different template: Stanford scribe example using template based on style file.

These exercises are particularly relevant for the exam situation where handwritten answers are required. You will deliver your solutions to the compulsory exercises 4 and 8 as pdf files in Blackboard. The precise deadlines for these exercises will be announced together with the exercises. The solutions must be handwritten and scanned (a good image with a phone is fine) and submit as a PDF file. For the exercise to be approved, you must score at least 40% as you would need to pass on the exam. They are graded using guidelines that are also used on the final exam.

The TA is available for questions regarding the exercises during the exercise session (see this), and also on the discussion forum.