Academic Integrity

Please read the University Academic Integrity Policy and the ACM Code of Ethics .  You are expected to abide by these rules in general.  Other, course specific, rules may also apply.  In particular, in some courses you may be encouraged to work with other students.

Unless otherwise noted, you should work on each of these assignments on your own. Copying other people's work is considered a Bad Thing and may result in failing the assignment, failing the class or in you being reported to the department or the University. This includes copying the work of other people in the class as well as copying work directly from the web.   Any quotes from the web, from other people's work, or from the published literature should be properly cited and attributed.

While copying another student's work is unethical and may result in punitive action, I do generally encourage you to work with other students in the process of doing (and debugging) homework answers and projects.   You will usually find that doing such helps your understanding of the material substantially.    However, any such work should be discarded and redone from scratch so that the final submission will be your own.   (It may seem odd, but this usually ends up requiring less time and debugging than doing it completely from scratch on your own.)  

If an assignment specifically allows you to work in groups, you should consider that a strong recommendation to do so. This does not relieve you from the constraints of the Academic Integrity rules - you should not copy work from other groups, nor should you copy work from elsewhere (the web, for instance).
You should (if you have not already done so) read the University web page on academic integrity.

Violations of the University Academic Integrity policy or of any course specific rules are subject to punitive action. This may (at the discretion of the instructor) range from a Good Stern Talking To to failing an assignment or the course up to formal university or even legal action.