# A. Rules and organisation

This document is a collection of exercises and commented source
code (demos). Each chapter corresponds to a single week of the
semester and hence to a single seminar (class). In the seminar in
the first week of the semester (the ‘zeroth’ seminar), you will get
a chance to acquaint yourself with the systems used in the course,
the study materials and basic tooling.

Each part of this collection (all demos and exercises in particular)
are also available as standalone files, which you can alter and
execute. We call this split version a «source bundle». The most
recent version¹ (in all available variants) can be obtained in these
two ways:

 1. In the «study materials²» of the subject in the IS – PDF and
    HTML files in the directory ‹text›, the source bundle in
    directories ‹00› (rules, organisation, technical information,
    etc.), ‹01› through ‹12› (one directory per chapter = week of
    the semester), ‹s1› through ‹s3› (assignment sets) and finally
    the directory ‹sol› contains reference solutions. We recommend
    that you fetch the files in batches using the ‘download as ZIP’
    option.
 2. When logged into the student server ‹aisa› (either using ‹ssh›
    or ‹putty›), by issuing the command ‹pv264 update›. All the
    above-mentioned directories will become available under
    ‹~/pv264›.

This chapter (directory) further contains «binding» rules and
information. Before you go on with the course, please read it
carefully.

For communication with the course organising team, please use the
«discussion forum» in the IS (you can find more about it in part
T.1). Please do not e-mail the organisers nor tutors with regard to
this subject, unless you have been specifically directed to.
Please direct requests for exemptions, absence excuse notices, etc.
to the study department.

¹ Study materials in this semester will be published as they become
  available – the course is being significantly reworked. Before you
  start working on practice exercises or assignment sets, please
  always make sure that you have an up-to-date version. Practice
  exercises may be considered final from Monday morning of the
  corresponding week. Assignment sets likewise in the morning of the
  first Monday in the corresponding block (i.e. first week practice
  18.9.2023 0:00 and first assignment set 25.9.2023 0:00.
² ‹https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/fi/podzim2023/PV264/um/›