Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.

Four assignments, no exam. Each one asks you to do something and then explain why you did it that way, because the explaining is where most of the learning turns out to be.

The weights rise across the semester. That is not a difficulty curve so much as a dependency one: each assignment assumes the habit the previous one built, and by the last one you are being asked to coordinate four other people who are all making the decisions you spent the first eleven weeks learning to make alone.