Late Assessment Submission Penalty

From 1 July 2022, Students enrolled in Session based units with written assessments will have the following university standard late penalty applied. Please see https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/assessments for more information.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of '0' will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55 pm. A 1- hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted

In this unit, late submissions will accepted as follows:

Assignment: YES, Standard late penalty applies

Project: YES, Standard late penalty applies

Weekly Tasks: NO, Unless special consideration is granted

Special Considerations

Students must submit an application for Special Consideration for any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, or scheduled practical assessments and labs.

Requirements to Pass this Unit

• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%.

Hurdle Assessments

• None

Week 1

Lectures and worksops start in week 1.

Technology required

• Eclipse - download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers: The practical work in this unit involves programming in Java (www.java.com) using the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (www.eclipse.org)
• Java SE JDK - download Java SE 8 to be compatible with the labs: Note that you need the Java JDK which includes the compiler tools, rather than the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) which you might already have installed on your computer to allow you to run Java applications. Any additional Java libraries will be made available for download.
• Other tools will be made available during the semester, such as nuXMV and Uppaal.
• Learning Management System iLearn: This will be used primarily to enable email broadcasts and give access to Assessment marks.
• The lecture audio will be recorded and will be available via iLearn.

Classes

Each week you should attend 2 hours of lectures and two-hour mixed classes. For details of days, times and rooms consult the timetables webpage.

You should have selected one two-hour workshop session at enrolment. You must attend the session you are enrolled in.

Please note that you are expected to attend most of the workshops because that is your opportunity to seek clarification of any parts of the course and exercises you do not understand. Note that the quizzes and assignments will be strongly based on the exercises you will complete during the workshops. You are therefore strongly advised to participate in the class exercises and to seek clarification when you are unable to complete a question.         

Unit Pages

The unit will make use of discussions hosted within iLearn. Please post questions there, they will be monitored by the staff on the unit.

Teaching and Learning Strategy

COMP4000 is taught via lectures and workshops. Lectures are used to introduce new theoretical material and methods, to give examples of the use these techniques and put them in a wider context. Workshops give you the opportunity to interact with your peers. You will be given problems to solve each week prior to each session; preparing solutions is important because it will allow you to discuss the problems effectively with your tutor thereby making the most of this activity. The aim of the workshops is to help you to develop problem-solving skills and teamwork, and you will be expected to work on problems in class. In this course, the attendance of lectures and workshops is essential to otimise your learning, and to obtain feedback for the quizzes and assignments.

There will be an opportunity to explore more deeply aspects of the course material which has not been covered in lectures or classes. These will sometimes be student-led, and in various forms including Q&A with the lecturer or short videos. Topics will for example include questions not covered in workshops, or hints and tips for assignments. More information for the timing of these sessions will be available on iLearn.

Lecture notes will be made available each week but these notes are intended as an outline of the lecture only and are not a substitute for your own notes or the textbook.

Standards and Grading

The final mark for the unit will be calculated by combining the marks for all assessment tasks according to the percentage weightings shown in the assessment summary.

Extension requests

Please note if you cannot submit on time because of illness or other circumstances, please contact the lecturer before the due date. If you experience a disruption to studies, you should notify the university.  Please note that this is a centralised process, and resolution can take some time.  This may mean, for example, that you are notified that your disruption request has been approved only after any reasonable length extension for an assignment could be granted: for instance, the assignment might have already been handed back.  With respect to assignments, you should therefore also notify the lecturer responsible for the assignment, and submit a solution to the assignment via iLearn, at the same time as you lodge your official disruption notification.  Failure to do so means that an extension may not be possible, leaving only some other remedy listed under the disruption to study outcomes schedule (e.g. partake in assessment task next available session).

Methods of Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email and through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to the unit convenor via the contact email on iLearn.

Weeks 1–3:  Introduction to formal specification and verification

Weeks 2–6:  Developing programs that satisfy specifications

Weeks 7–10:  Formal modelling using Model Checking (including topics from temporal logic, SAT)

Weeks 11–12:  System Modelling and Analysis

Week 13: Review

We value student feedback to be able to improve the way we offer our units continually. As such, we encourage students to provide constructive feedback via student surveys, to the teaching staff directly, or via the FSE Student Experience & Feedback link on the iLearn page. The unit will remain unchanged in the topics that are covered, the type of assessments, but will incorporate the lessons learned from the first offering of this unit.