All labs must be your own work.  Questions about lab
guidelines can be asked on the newsgroup, but all 
questions about specific solutions should be directed
through email to me and will be reposted after
quick perusal to screen out any answers that others
should discover for themselves.  Please do not attempt
to copy labs from another student- that doesn't help
you learn Perl, and it won't help your grade if I
find out.

NOTE:  I look at the code for ALL labs personally.
I WILL see if you have copied code from somebody
else, so don't do it.  ALL cases that appear to
be cheating will be referred to the academic 
misconduct committee.

All labs will be worth a certain amount of the total
100 points that are available through lab credit.
A total score of greater than 80/100 is required
to pass.  HOWEVER, each lab will have ample extra 
credit points available, so 80/100 overall should not
be difficult.  The labs will be graded rather strictly,
because I hope to teach you the best Perl programming
practices that I can- the extra credit points easily
offset this strict grading.  I expect every lab to
be attempted and to implement at least part of the
requirements- turning in labFOO.pl with just a 
#! line and a print statement does not count.

You should strive to write the most efficient code
given your current knowledge.  Also, once we discuss
-w and "use strict" in class, those two things must
be present in every lab, or points will be lost (we
will discuss the reasons for this when these concepts
are introduced).  Points will also be subtracted for
labs that will not run properly without modification,
labs that do not run as stated in the directions (if
the lab writeup says that it takes 2 input parameters,
yet I try to run it and it won't accept the second one,
then it's obviously not working properly), labs that
do not have a proper #! line at the beginning, etc.
Make SURE that your lab runs properly on the CSE
Solaris systems with the currently installed version
of Perl.  (/usr/local/bin/perl).  The following should
be in every program that you submit:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

Also, should you choose to work on your labs at home
on a Windows machine, make doubly sure you try them
out on our systems before you submit them.  Sometimes
the dos carriage returns can cause problems- you
might need to use dos2unix to fix your programs.  An
example of how to do this with our current version
of dos2unix is:

dos2unix lab1.pl lab1.pl

Another common problem is not submitting an executable
file; I grade the labs by running them similarly to the
following:

(from my grading directory):

cd joe_student/lab1
./lab1.pl

If you forget to chmod 755 before you submit the lab,
this will not work, and you will lose points for it.

Several students lately have turned in code that doesn't
use proper indentation.  There are many styles of indentation
using spaces, tabs, etc.  Please choose one of them and use
it.  Code such as this:

if($foo==5)
{
if($bar==6)
{
print "bar was 6 and foo was 5\n";
}
print "foo was 5\n";
}

is not acceptable and will result in a point deduction.  Please
at least add some indentation to help delineate your code- the
previous example should be written more like this:

if ($foo == 5) {
  if ($bar == 6) {
    print "bar was 6 and foo was 5\n";
  }
  print "foo was 5\n";
}

I am here to help you learn Perl.  The best way is by
using the language, and learning from your mistakes.
I will strive to offer my suggestions on your code.
I'm offering the extra credit as a chance for you to
attempt some additional uses of Perl for each lab,
as well as to offset the points that you may lose in
the process of learning.  

Late Labs:

1 day late:   10% penalty
2 days late:  20% penalty
3 days late:  50% penalty
4 days late:  75% penalty
up to 7 days late:  worth 0, BUT, I'll still give extra credit
                    points, if you have completed any of the
                    extra credit items correctly.

Final Exam:

I personally believe that it is much more important to use
the language than it is to memorize syntax - after all, you
can get the syntax using the online documentation (perldoc),
as well as by using reference books.  

SO, there is no final exam.  All of the points come from
the labs, and as mentioned above, each lab will need to
be completed as well.