General Class Information

• Lecture times: Tuesday & Thursday, 6-7:45 PM
• Class: JBE 156
• Instructor: Jose Renau
  Office Hours: Friday, 4:00-6:00 PM
  Office: E2 227
• Teaching Assitant: Javi Mesa-Martinez
  Office Hours: Monday and Tuesdays from 11 am to noon at E2 209
• Text book (optional): Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Ed. by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
• Newsgroup: ucsc.class.cmpe202
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• Class recordings: Media center

Grading

• Homeworks: 9% (3% per homework)
• Paper Reviews: 14% (7% per paper)
• Midterm: 15%
• Final: 20%
• Projects: 42% (7% Setup, 5% Project Presentation, 30% Project)

Policy

• Exams are open book. You can bring all the books (no computers) that you want.
• Late policy: 1 minute late, no grade
• Homeworks and paper reviews are done INDIVIDUALLY.