Program Grading Rubric

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Computer program assignments are generally graded using one of the following rubrics. In fact, you can printout this page and use it as a checklist while completing a program assignment.

Name:

Programming Assignment:

Comments:

 
  Source Code          
Coding Standards          
Indentation/White Space
  No Yes    
Internal Documentation   Too Much None A Little Enough
Algorithm Efficiency (use of control structures)   Very Inefficient a little inefficient logical really efficient
Modularization (functions, methods)   None Some Good  
Use of Variables (no globals, self-documenting, not too many)          
Variable Dictionary          
Creativity (if applicable)          
Input Validation (if applicable)          
           
Run-Time Execution          
Run-time    Doesn't Work At All Barely Works Works Incompletely Works Fine
User Prompts   Misleading None Average Fully Explained
User Interface Organization & Consistency   Unnatural Average Good  
Robustness/Error-checking   None Some Really Robust  
           
External Documentation
(written)		          
Interface Sketch (if applicable)          
Pseudocode          
Test Plan
boundary cases		          
Test Plan
sufficient test cases		          
Test Plan organization