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+# Basic Java Classes Winter 2018-2019
+
+## Welcome :)
+
+This is the Basic Java course for the winter semester of the 2018/2019 academic year.
+
+## Useful:
+
+Charles' e-mail: ferrari at caesar.elte.hu
+
+Charles Website (updated infos and timetable): https://ferraricharles.github.io/
+
+
+
+### How things work here...
+
+Our material is public and available for anyone learning. The classes are exclusive for the students registered at ELTE.
+
+You're kindly requested to contact me only using the official channels, unless you want to invite me for partying, then you can use whatever ;)
+
+* Everything here has only **educational purposes**;
+* Anyone is very much welcome to send pull requests;
+  * Only students of this course will get **extra points** tho...
+* Pull requests will be evaluated by the lecturer;
+* Pull requests with unnecessary files or misleading documentation will be commented and may be refused.
+
+## What if I am a student of the course?
+Even better, let's remember some stuff then...
+
+### Course rules
+* Presence is mandatory, remember to sign the presence sheet every class. If you fail on doing so, 3 unjustified absences automatically fails you.
+  * **But I was traveling** Good for you :) But unless you have some justification that is just another absence;
+  * **But I was sick** Send a proof of it to the lecturer e-mail;
+  * **But I really needed to skip the class** Send your justification to the lecturer's e-mail and the course team will evaluate it, we are not so cold hearted.
+  * **But I arrived super late in the semester** Once again, send it to the lecturer, this information will be verified with the university administration and the course team will decide case by case.
+  * **But I was about to sign the presence sheet then I got distracted by a gnome that was passing by the classroom, passed the sheet on and forgot to sign it by the end of the class even though it was there all the time.** Really? OMG! Fortunately you have 3 absences.
+
+
+* **NO IDEs** We will try to work together and learn first how to do things from scratch, compiling and running from the console.
+
+### Copies, plagiarism and similars
+Any sort of plagiarism, copies, ideological falsehood  or unlawful behavior may be subject of auction in the format of the university regulations.
+
+#### Course grades
+* Challenges and class exercises (10%)
+* Final assignment (40%)
+* Exam (50%)
+
+* Accepted pull requests can count as extra points in all the activities with grades, being that these points will never compose more than 30% of the grade.
+  * The extra points will first be attributed to the challenges, then to the final assignment and only if all those are with full mark, to the final exam.
+
+* During the exam period, the highest grade is taken
+* There is no *cum laude* grade