Grading and every dated event of the 2025 offering in one place. All times are IST. Quizzes are closed book; each assignment is followed by a viva.
Grading
Everything is out of 100 marks, with bonus marks on top.
| Component | Marks | How |
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| Quizzes | 54 | Four closed-book quizzes, two in each half of the semester, a mix of multiple-choice and written questions. Your best three count, 18 marks each. No makeup quizzes for any reason: a missed quiz scores zero and is usually the dropped one. |
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| Assignments | 40 | Group programming assignments, 10 to 12 marks each, each with at least one project-like question. They may involve pull requests to public repositories and Hugging Face Spaces demos, and each is followed by a viva. |
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| Attendance | 6 | Recorded on the biometric system. It is your responsibility to make sure it registers; if it does not, you are marked absent. |
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| Total | 100 | |
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Assignment marks
| Part | Share |
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| Code functionality | 50% |
| Understanding | 25% |
| Code quality | 12.5% |
| Theory | 12.5% |
Attendance
| Classes missed | Marks |
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| ≤ 4 | 6 |
| 5–6 | 5 |
| 7–8 | 4 |
| 9–10 | 1 |
| > 10 | 0 |
There is no leave system: a missed class counts as an absence, and you do not need to inform the instructor or send a medical certificate. If an emergency makes you miss four or more classes in a row, talk to the instructor about special consideration.
Bonus marks
Up to 1 mark for answering questions in class (0.5 per question, at most two), at the instructor’s discretion. An optional Kaggle competition, if announced, adds a bonus by final standing:
| Result | Bonus |
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| Participation | 0.5 |
| 50th percentile | 1.0 |
| 75th percentile | 1.5 |
| 90th percentile | 2.0 |
| 95th percentile | 2.5 |
| Top 3 | 3.0 |