FAQ

We get a lot of high level questions about the course. Here are our answers to the most common ones. (We'll undoubtedly add to them as the course progresses.)

• Because of the corona virus crisis I have had to return to my home country.  Can I still follow the course remotely?

 Yes if you had registered  for the course and you think you can manage the project. You will need to work probably remotely with a group  of at least 2 other people. If you think you can manage this then you are very welcome to complete course remotely.

• Will recorded videos of the lectures be made available?

Yes, temporarily. I will record the zoom live-stream, at least the formal lecture part and then make it available after the lecture. However, as there may be issues with IP, privacy, quality and also to help you schedule your time I will only leave them up for one week after the scheduled lecture. Then I will remove it.

Note as I'll be doing the recording myself and things can and will go wrong there is no guarantee that I will always be successful with the recording. Thus please attend the live-stream if at all possible. The recording will be for those who really could not attend the live-stream due to lecture clashes or the exchange students who had to leave Sweden early and are now in very different timezones. 

• Is attendance at the project help sessions mandatory?

No. You are free to book a 15 minute time slot with a TA to get advice and help about the group project and/or the homework assignments. But you are also free not to book any time slot and not attend.

• Do I complete the homework/programming assignments in groups or individually?

Individually. I have no problem with you discussing the assignments with other students on the course. But each person has to write their own code and report and upload their own work to Canvas.

• Can PhD and non-PhD students be in the same project group?

No. It will be too difficult for us to grade the project if there are PhD and non-PhD students in the same project group. 

• Are the deadlines hard for the assignment submission?

No. The deadlines are soft. If you submit by the deadline then your assignment will be approved/corrected in a timely fashion. If you submit after the deadline then we can make no such guarantees, your assignment will be corrected but when is another issue........ 

• What about the bonus point submissions?

There will be a final hard deadline for the last possible submission of bonus point assignments. This will be at the end of May. Thus you can submit bonus point assignments after the "soft" deadline, however, you cannot submit them after the hard deadline in May.

• Can I have more than 3 people in my group?

Yes but we prefer groups of 3. You can be four members but then of course we expect that you produce more in the project.

• Can I have fewer 3 people in my group?

No. We do not have the resources to have groups of 1 or 2. I know many students prefer to work individually. But think of this project as an opportunity to improve working as part of a team and to also potentially learn some new skills from other students. 

• I'm a PhD student, is there a Phd version of the course?

Yes. The course code for the PhD version of the course is DD3424. The differences between the PhD and the non-PhD course are 

1. The PhD course is graded only as Pass/Fail.
2. There is a higher criterion for passing the project group or the written take home assignment than the non-PhD students.