====== Assignments ======

**Requirements:**
   * You must answer at least four of the six assignments well enough to be approved in order to attend the exam.
  * In order to be approved, the solution should reflect
      * ability to apply the main theory of the lectures to solve the given problems
      * a work effort of no less than 6 hours a week
  * __As an absolute minimum,__ we require that at least 50% of the assignment is answered //correctly//. However, it is strongly recommended that you work through every problem in each assignment as they will target different parts of the curriculum.  You may contact the TA if you disagree with the decision to not approve one of your assignments.
  * The hand-in should be the student's own work and not copied from someone else's work or from any solution manual. Breakage of this rule will be reported.
  * Assignments are to be submitted individually.

The assignments are intended as a two-week workload, and we strongly encourage you to plan and distribute your work accordingly.

**Guidance:**
  * Guidance on the assignments will be given on Mondays between 10.15 and 12.00 in [[https://link.mazemap.com/l824mYie|S8]].
  * First guidance session is in week 35 (August 25.).

**Handing in:**
  * Your solution should be handed in at Blackboard as a PDF file. 
  * Assignments that are handed in after their deadline will not be accepted. If you have a valid reason and you contact the TA __before__ the deadline, an appropriate extension can be approved in certain cases. 
  * The deadline is at 23:59 on the date found in the table below. You are given a minimum of 2 weeks on each assignment.



^**Schedule of assignments** ^^^|
|**Number**   |**Date out**   |**Guidance**   |**Date in**   |
|1|21 August| 25 August and 1 September|8 September|
|2|4 September|8 September and 15 September|22 September|
|3|18 September|22 September and 29 September|13 October|
|4|2 October| 13 October and 20 October|27 October|
|5|23 October|27 October and 3 November|10 November|
|6|6 November|10 November and 17 November|23 (!) November|
(There will also be guidance during the study week, in week 41.)


Your student assistant will evaluate the assignment through Blackboard within one week after the submission deadline. 

If your assignment is lost/the student assistant has not registered this in Blackboard (accepted/not accepted), you must contact the teaching assistant within two weeks after the assignment submission deadline.

Note that it is your responsibility to make sure that you have at least four assignments approved during the semester, and no exceptions will be made at the end of the semester.