<p>Yeah HarvardBoundNY, you’re right about that. But I still want to appeal this seeing as I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Well at least I won’t ever have to take another computer science/science/math course ever again since those seem to be the courses which bring down what would be an otherwise near perfect GPA.</p>
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<p>That’s what you say, but there’s nothing objective to support this. For all we know, you might have misunderstood/misrepresented your prof, and points were actually lost elsewhere.</p>
<p>Also, I’m curious to see what your calcDouble() function does. It seems quite clear to me that that’s not where the major calculation in the program is done. (Rather, it is done by the multiplication operator in statements such as
lstMoney.Items.Add("Day 27: " & (CalcDouble(dblStarting, dblDouble) * 33554432).ToString("c")
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<p>That the code is huge is no problem for pastebin. </p>
<p>Also, I’d like to echo b@r!um. What the hell did your flowchart look like?</p>
<p>All-in-all, I think you got very lucky with a professor who feels somewhat obligated to stick to a misguided rubric. Most CS professors would not let you walk out of that class with a grade higher than a C, if this final project was indicative of the quality of the work that you submitted for the rest of the semester.</p>
<p>If I were the professor I’d just give you the points you’re whining about here and switch your participation grade to a 0%.</p>
<p>OK here’s the entire code:
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<p>And don’t try to nit pick at it. It works fine. </p>
<p>b@r!um, my project did “work as intended”. It did everything that was required and gave the user the correct values. What you wish for, and what the project interface design requirements actually are are two entirely different things.</p>
<p>RacinReaver, you would then find yourself out of a job.</p>
<p>I’m not even really trying to attack you here, but I’m seriously curious: do you REALLY think you can get a professor fired for this or any grade you think is unfair? I feel like if the prof didn’t have a history of complaints, he could fail you and there wouldn’t be a whole lot you could do about it.</p>
<p>I’m actually not even trying to attack you, I’m genuinely wondering how much power you think you have.</p>
<p>Unless your dad is the dean, or your family donated a wing, you are just a brick in the wall.</p>
<p>^ RoxSox, you have to understand who is in control here. I’m very particular about what kind of grades I get. Last semester my history professor accidentally gave me a “C” because he gave me someone else’s grades, so I went to his office and asked him:
“What are you doing? I worked so hard in this class and you’ve mistakenly given me a C.” He was a little bit embarrassed but he corrected his error and about two weeks later the grade change (A) was reflected on my transcript. This will obviously be a bit more difficult because the programming professor refuses to admit the error of his ways but if the department chairperson listens to me, this should really be an easy appeal. I don’t want to take it to an even higher authority but if she doesn’t listen to me, I’ll be forced to.</p>
<p>I’m not even in programming, and I can tell you that efficiency is a major portion of any project. You cannot stick together plywood to make a house and claim it is as good as one made of bricks and mortar; you cannot make a 369-line code for something that would take significantly less than that.
Quick question: Why did you have to set aside a line of code for every single day? I’m not knowledgeable about basic, but it just seems logical there would be a sequence that would allow you to just rerun iterations of it for any given day.</p>
<p>And there is a huge difference between inputting a grade wrong and trying to appeal something that is subjective in itself. It is quite unlikely that you will succeed in your endeavor.</p>
<p>You’ve got an interesting discussion going on here… but this comment from DreamingBig shocked me. I’m a teacher and geez, with a comment like this after you spelled out how you obtain a grade, there is no way you deserve an A. It’s as simple as this: if you don’t achieve mastery, you don’t deserve an A.
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<p>^ The grading for this final exam isn’t subject because he grades strictly by the rubric and has inexplicably taken off twenty points from my project for “Functionality, Error Prevention, etc”. This component of the rubric would only account for ten points on a fifty point scale so it is irrational that he could have taken all twenty points off for that. </p>
<p>When I appeal this to the department chairperson, he’ll be forced to admit that he deducted twenty points because he did not want me to get an “A” for the course after I didn’t use a For Next loop on the final exam project.</p>
<p>Well, if it’s error prevention, I see so many things that could cause it to error, like asking it to run day 121.</p>
<p>limabeans, it doesn’t matter what I “deserve”. I’ve earned an A. </p>
<p>The course syllabus is pretty clear:
Evaluation Method:
The final course grade will be based on the following criteria:
· Lab Projects: 30%
· Midterm Exam: 30%
· Final Exam: 30%
· Class Activities / Group work / Attendance: 10%</p>
<p>Your “mastery of course” criteria doesn’t factor into this equation. Sorry. Try again next time.</p>
<p>Look, Dreaming, you have no support here. Why are you continuing?</p>
<p>Stevenf, you can’t ask it to “run day106”. It’s a radio button project. You click the radio buttons and it outputs the values to a list box.</p>
<p>Not inputting that data. I’m talking about how it seems so arduous to change the coding for any extra day. For Next would make it much cleaner.</p>
<p>Stevenf, you’re clueless. The program works just fine. Get over it.</p>
<p>You don’t deserve an A, your professor has the right to give you the grade HE thinks you earned, and obviously he thinks you’ve earned an A-. It’s not something to complain about.</p>
<p>This thread made my day, lol.</p>
<p>No, he has the right to follow his syllabus which clearly explains how the course is to be graded. Any deviation from this would be unfair and unethical on his part.</p>
<p>An impartial re-evaluation of my final exam project, adhering strictly to the wording of his own exam and following his own rubric, will show that I have clearly earned higher than a 30/50 on the project and consequently, I have earned an A in the course.</p>