Evaluation Plan

This page outlines the evaluation plan for this course. Any changes to the plan will be updated here. The split up is as follows:

1. Problems sets - 20% (Best 4 of 5, 5% each).
2. Quizzes $\times 2$ - 20%
3. Course presentation / Video - 20%
4. End exam - 40%

Problem sets

There will be 5 problem sets released roughly once every 2-3 weeks. Each problem set will contain around 3-4 questions. The schedule for the problem set is available in the Problem Sets tab.

Quizzes

There will be two tests and a final exam which will be held in the day and the slot scheduled by the academic section of IIT Palakkad. The likely dates are as follows:

The venue for all the quizzes will be announced by Academic Section, IIT Palakkad. Please regularly check your institute student mail (smail) for announcements.

Course presentation

Towards the middle of the course (around mid September), we will be handing out a list of research papers. Each students must pick a paper and present the paper with the proof of the main result in significant detail. The presentations will be scheduled in the last week of October.

Video

The aim of this activity is to produce 10 minutes videos (with your own script and your own voice along the lines of Numberphile or 3blue1brown) explaining technical topics in coding theory to a non-technical audience who is mathematically oriented. Your video must be accompanied by a one page report on how it was produced along with any simplifications that were done, while retaining its accuracy. The list of topics will be released around mid September.