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Hello
I have a problem in Linear Algebra for Machine Learning and Data Science course in week 4 in the Programming Assignment: Application of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors: Webpage navigation model and PCA ( the last programming assignment) It gives me a zero for all questions even though I am sure of the solutions and I have changed the code more than once for the questions but still zero

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Welcome to the discussion forums! Notice that you have filed a course specific question under the general category of “AI Discussions”. You’ll have better luck getting prompt responses if you file things under the correct category. I will use the little “edit pencil” on the title to move the thread to M4ML C1 W4.

When you get 0 points for everything, it typically means that the grader got an exception of some sort while trying to call your functions. That causes the execution to halt and you can’t get partial scores in that case. The first step in figuring this out is to click “Show grader output” and then post a screen shot of that. That gives some clue about the nature of the problem we hope, although it doesn’t always help. But it’s the first step …

A couple other things to note:

  1. There is no point in submitting a partially completed notebook, because you typically get this scenario.
  2. Even if all your tests pass in the notebook, it is still very possible to fail the grader. It means that your code is not “general”: it is somehow specific to the test case in the notebook but fails with a different test case. Ways to do this include referencing global variables or hard-coding dimensions or other assumptions about the input values.
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Yikes! That file should be there or you couldn’t run the tests in the notebook. Are you sure things run correctly when you do “Cell → Run All” in the notebook?

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The most direct fix is for you to delete your notebook file (using File->Open), and use the Lab Help menu and “Get latest version”.

Then you can start over.

Be sure you don’t make any changes to the notebook that are not specifically mentioned in the instructions.

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Hey all!

What I’ve been seeing in errors like this is that you maybe added imports in any graded cell. This can cause unexpected behavior. In this case, for instance, the autograder doesn’t have access to the w4_unittest.py file, so it can’t import it.

I’d suggest not adding any new import nor importing any library in the graded cells.

Thanks,
Lucas

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Thanks, Lucas. Now it all makes sense. Someone gets an error for “w4_unittest not found” because they forgot to run all the previous cells first, so then they add an extra import statement to the graded cell to solve that. Big mistake!

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see that is the second assignment and still give me zeros but my code is correct

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This looks like a different error than last time. The grader error is complaining about “None” occurring. Are you sure that you completed all the portions of the assignment? It typically doesn’t not work to submit to the grader until you have completed all graded portions of the assignment.

Your code threw an exception in the grader, so it can’t complete operation and you get 0 for all sections, even if some of them are correct.

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Yes, I just solved all the questions and it was corrected.
Thank you so much

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can i send you the file to make sure because it’s back giving me zero :sob: :sob:

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Yes, I will send you a DM about how to do that.