CSI 2110: Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall 2026)

Midterm and final exams

• The midterm and final exam must be passed in the aggregate: (M + F) / 70 must be at least 50%.
• If you miss the midterm due to justifiable reasons (e.g., sickness with a doctor’s note), the weight of midterm will be shifted to the final exam.
• In that case, the final exam counts for 70% of the course grade and you must earn F/70 ≥ 50% on the final to pass the course.

Written assignments and programming assignments

• Specifications for assignments will be posted on Brightspace.
• All assignments must be completed individually and submitted to the appropriate folder on Brightspace. Submissions by email are not accepted.
• Late submissions within 1 min - 24 hours are accepted with a 30% penalty. Submissions that are more than 24 hours late will not be accepted.

Labs

• Release: Lab specifications will be posted on Brightspace at 4:00 PM each Thursday.
• Submission deadline: Lab work is due at 11:59PM on the following Thursday. Late submissions within 1 min - 24 hours are accepted with a 30% penalty. No submissions will be accpeted more than 24 hours after the deadline.
• In-person grading: In addition to submitting the lab on Brightspace, each student must have the lab graded in person by a TA during one of their scheduled lab sessions within the two weeks following the submission deadline. It is the student's responsibility to ask the TA to grade the submitted lab. During the grading, the TA may ask questions about the code and implementation before assigning the lab mark.
• You may complete a lab individually or in a group of two members. If you work in a group, both students must belong to the same LAB Section, i.e., the same time/room/TA. Each student must submit the lab separately on Brightspace and must be graded individually in person. Even if two students submit the same group solution, each student is expected to understand the submitted code and be able to answer the TA's questions.
• The lab participation bonus is proportional to the total lab marks you earn over the semester, up to a maximum bonus of 2 percentage points.

Communication

• Students are encouraged to attend the weekly office hours held by the professor and TAs. TA information and office hours are posted on Brightspace under General Information.
• When sending an email, please begin the subject line with CSI2110, followed by a few words describing the topic, to help ensure that your email is properly identified and read. We will respond as soon as possible, but please allow up to two business days for a response.

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory, but students are strongly encouraged to attend lectures. Slides are primarily teaching aids rather than complete lecture notes and may not contain every detail discussed in class.

Academic integrity and use of AI tools

Plagiarism (copying and submitting someone else's work for credit) and other forms of academic fraud are serious academic offenses that will not be tolerated. Note that students providing copy solutions also commit an offense because they are active participants in plagiarism. The person copying and the person providing the material for the copying will be reprimanded in a similar manner, according to regulations established by the University of Ottawa.

For this course, using generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) in any submission is considered academic fraud.

For more information, please see:

• Academic integrity for students
• Academic Regulation A-4: Academic Integrity and Academic Misconduct
• Academic Integrity: Student’s Guide (PDF)