Timing of the weekly briefing
As our lecture slot (which we use for the weekly briefing) is on Friday (i.e., at the end of the week), the briefing in Weekn lecture slot covers a recap of Weekn and a preview of Weekn+1 e.g. The briefing on week 3 Friday covers a recap of week 3 and a preview of week 4.
Deadline for weekly tasks
The deadline for weekly tasks is Friday 1600 i.e.,the lecture slot start time. Work done after that time (e.g., code committed after Friday 1600) will be credited for the following week.
It's OK to miss a few weekly project deadlines occasionally i.e., we'll not penalize you even if you occasionally miss those deadlines, as long as you catch up soon enough (within a few days after the deadline). This flexibility does not apply if a task description states a specific deadline.
It's OK to make occasional mistakes in weekly tasks (making mistakes is a natural part of learning new things after all). If a weekly task was not accepted as 'done' due to a mistake you made, go ahead and rectify the mistake as soon as you can -- our grading scripts will not penalize such mistakes if they are corrected soon after.
We won't wait forever though. Note that for most interim deliverables, we stop checking about one week after the deadline is over. So, work/corrections done more than one week after the deadline might not get noticed at all by our grading scripts, even as late submissions.
Timing recommendations
- Start Weekn+1 tasks on Weekn Friday. As the Weekn+1 briefing is done on Weekn Friday (i.e., ~2 days before the week actually starts), you are recommended to start on Weekn tasks on that Friday itself. That way, you have more time to finish them by the Weekn+1 deadline (i.e., Weekn+1 Friday 1600).
- Before attempting weekly project tasks, go through the weekly topics as the knowledge from those topics may be needed to complete the project tasks.
- Try to finish most weekly tasks before attending the tutorial of that week, because some tutorial tasks are done best after weekly tasks have been completed, for the best learning experience.