General

• Assignments are due by 11:59pm on the due date.
• Electronic submissions only, as described below.
• Typeset is preferred, but handwritten submissions are allowed if they are clear and easy to read.
  We prefer that you use LaTeX for written portions of assignments.
  If you do need to handwrite some parts, please combine typeset and handwritten parts into a SINGLE pdf file.
  (Scan handwritten parts into readable images using a scanner and insert them into a Word processor or LaTeX file, then convert to pdf.)
• Unless otherwise specified, only MATLAB or Python is allowed for programming questions.
  Please note: you should only use simple MATLAB or Python functions (some of the problems may already be implemented by a complicated routine in MATLAB or Python; you should not use that routine, but instead create your own implementation).
  When in doubt, please ask.
  
• Include in your pdf writeup everything that is needed to grade your submission, in an easily readable format. The pdf submission is the primary file we will use for grading. (We may or may not look at or run your code submission.) Please make sure that your pdf includes all answers and shows all your work in deriving those answers. Think of it is a mini scientific paper, in which you describe in words and equations everything that is necessary for a reader to understand your work. Do not simply copy and paste code to make that possible. Instead, say what you did, for instance, something like this: "I used function XYZ to obtain the SVD decomposition of matrix A. Here are the resulting matrices, U, Σ, and V: ... Since there are 7 zeros on the diagonal of Σ, I see that matrix A has nullity 7. ... ." Please organize your answers so that a TA grading a particular problem can understand your answer without referring to any other problem's answer (which may not be easily visible to the TA while grading).
• For problems that involve implementations, please submit any code that you used for those problems. Submit code separately from pdf, as described below. In your pdf, please specify how you obtained your answers via your code, and provide instructions that would allow a grader to run your code. (Reminder: your pdf must be sufficiently complete for a grader to assess your work without actually running or looking at your code. So, do not simply say "see code" in your pdf file. Please make sure your pdf file contains all necessary answers, but submit the code as well.)

File Structure

• You will submit two files:
• One SINGLE pdf file (any name you want) that contains all your written material.
  Start each major numbered problem on a new page in your pdf. (The submission and grading process will expect this structure.)
• One SINGLE zip file (any name you want) that contains all your code files.

How To Submit Your Assignment

• When you go to the Gradescope webpage for this course, you should see two submission slots for each assignment, for instance:
    HW1 Written   and   HW1 Code.
• Submit your pdf file to the  HW[#] Written  slot (with [#] being the current assignment number). When you make this submission, you will have an opportunity to "assign pages", which means the following: Gradescope has logical pages, generally one for each problem. Gradescope needs a mapping between your pdf pages and those logical pages, in order to properly display material during grading. Please correctly assign your pdf pages to Gradescope's logical pages. To facilitate that, we ask that you also please start a new page in your pdf for each major numbered problem.
• Submit your zip file to the   HW[#] Code   slot.
• After submission, verify that the files you uploaded arrived successfully and contain the correct content, by looking at them from Gradescope.
• (Later, for resubmissions, there will be two new slots, with slightly different names, for instance,   HW1 Written Resubmit   and   HW1 Code Resubmit.)

Additional comments:

• When submitting code, you can actually drag and drop code files individually if you prefer to do that instead of zipping them up into one file.
• Ignore any scores you see after code submission. There is no autograding. We are simply using the code submission as a convenient repository for code files.