6.02
Spring 2012
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SW installation
Python
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6.02 Course Information
| Units |
12 (4-4-4)
Requirements satisfied: 1/2 Institute Lab, 6 Engineering Design Points.
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| Prerequisites |
18.03, 6.01.
The problem sets involve programming; they require knowledge of Python at the level of 6.00 or 6.01.
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| Course objectives |
This course introduces several concepts in electrical engineering and computer science using digital communication systems as the vehicle. More...
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| Lectures |
MW 2-3 pm in 34-101: George Verghese and Hari Balakrishnan.
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| Recitations |
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| Help |
The TAs and LAs will be available in the afternoons and evenings in
the 6.02 lab, 38-530. The staffing schedule is posted on the Lab
Hours page on the course website. The lab has 100 debathena
workstations (or, BYOL -- bring your own laptop); hours are posted
below. The lecturers and recitation instructors have office hours as
listed in the table of staff members below.
| Hours | Days |
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| 0900 - 2330 | Mon - Thu |
| 0900 - 1700 | Fri |
| closed | Sat |
| 1300 - 2330 | Sun |
There are special hours during holidays and breaks -- see the
schedule posted in the lab for more details.
Piazza: We'll use the 6.02 piazza forum
(opens in new tab) for Q&A and other discussions regarding the
course. Please sign up, and check that page regularly.
You can also email 6.02-help at mit dot edu, but we prefer
Piazza.
If you are having access or technical problems with the online system,
please email 6.02-web at mit dot edu.
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| Staff |
| Duties |
Name |
Email at mit.edu |
Office |
Phone |
| George Verghese |
vlada |
10-140K
(... or by appt) |
x4-4913 |
| Lectures |
Hari Balakrishnan |
hari |
32-G940
(W 3.15-4.30 pm or by appt) |
x3-8713 |
| Recitations |
Yury Polyanskiy |
yp |
32-D668
(... or by appt) |
x4-0047 |
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| Readings | For course notes, lecture
slides, and practice problems, click on the "Handouts" link on the left.
| | PSets | There are nine problem sets
(PSets), posted more-or-less weekly on the web site most
Wednesdays. Each PSet is due on the date specified in it; usually
that's midnight the following wednesday (we'll let that deadline
slide to 6 am the following Thursday morning in keeping with MIT
tradition). Solutions will be available at some point after the
due date, once you have submitted the assignment online. See the
course calendar for the specific dates.
Some of the problems involve writing Python code, so be sure to
start early and leave enough time to debug your implementation
before the due date. There will be six checkoff interviews
during the semester, lasting 15-20 minutes each on average, which
you must complete with your assigned TA on or before the dates
specified on the problem set. Your TA will contact you to
schedule these interviews.
After your PSet has been graded, your score and any comments from
the grader can be viewed online by browsing the PSet. If you have
any questions or concerns about the grading, contact your TA.
Completing the interviews is a pre-requisite for passing the
course. A missing interview will result in a failing grade; we
will not grant "incompletes" for missing interviews.
Late policy: You may extend the PSet submission deadline
by 7 days for at most two PSets during the term without penalty. For
any other late PSets, your score will be multiplied by 0.5, and you
need to submit it within 7 days of the original due date to get any
credit. To get one of the two student extensions, click on the
"student extension" button on "On-line grade" link on the left.
Please note that working through the PSets (and other practice
problems we provide) is the best way to test your understanding of
what we tech and prepare for the quizzes.
If you have a note from Student Support Services, please see your
TA or one of the course lecturers. For all other circumstances
(interview trips, sporting events, performances, overwork, etc.) you
may use your extensions.
Collaboration policy: The PSets must be done individually.
You may get help from the course staff and other students on the
underlying material in the PSets, but the work you hand in must be
your own. In particular, you must not copy another person's
solution, code, or other work. Someone telling you the solution to a
problem is also not acceptable. Copying another person's work or
allowing your work to be copied by others is a serious academic
offense and will be treated as such. We will spot-check your
submissions using a software utility and manually for infractions of
the collaboration policy, so please don't tempt fate by submitting
someone else's work as your own; it will save us all a lot of grief.
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| Quizzes |
There are three quizzes, scheduled as follows:
Quiz 1: TBD
Quiz 2: TBD
Quiz 3: Finals week, date and location TBD
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| Participation |
We expect you to attend all lectures and recitations, unless there are
pressing or unforeseen conflicts. Conflicts that are persistent
(e.g., registering for another class at the same time and "splitting"
attendance between them) are not excused. Attending recitations is not
merely optional. Things we teach in lecture and recitation are fair
game on quizzes and problem sets.
To assess and encourage participation, lectures and recitations
will include simple "spot questions" that we will ask from time to
time, somewhat at random. Over the duration of the term, between
lectures and recitations, we anticipate many dozens of such questions;
if you pay a little attention, answering them will be trivial. At the
end of the term we will take your responses to all these questions
into consideration to assess a participation score, which will
count toward a small portion (3%) of the overall grade.
If you miss a few lectures and recitations, it shouldn't materially
affect this score. If you miss more, it probably will. If you end up
at the border between two letter grades (A/B, or B/C, say), we will
look at your level of participation and use our discretion in
assessing your final grade.
Our main reason in these "spot questions" is to assess in
"real-time" how well we are teaching. The spot questions will require
no tricks or deep reflection of the topics; they are intended to see
if the big picture ideas are coming through or not.
| | Grading |
Your final grade will be determined by a weighted average of the following:
Three quizzes for a total of 52%:
Quiz 1: 17%
Quiz 2: 18%
Quiz 3: 17%
9 PSets: 5% each, for a total of 45%
Participation in recitations and lecture: 3%
To see your current scores use the "Online grades" link in the nav bar on the left.
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