1 Purpose

Labs are intended to help you understand the material covered in the lectures and readings. Most labs involve guided "experiments" that are designed to help you discover/realize things that you might otherwise be unaware of. Other labs are designed to give you additional experience with a topic or help you acquire skills.

2 Tools

You should use the course-approved development environment for labs (so that you will acquire some important skills).

3 Collaboration

The kind of labs used in this course are most effective if you discuss them with someone else while you are working on them. Hence, you should, but need not, work on them in a group.

4 Submission

You are not required to submit completed labs. Hence, labs will not be graded. However, you are responsible for the material covered in labs and questions related to that material may appear on exams.