Department of Computer Science and Engineering
CSE 247 / 502N	Fall 2016

Collaboration Policy

Academic integrity is an essential characteristic of any scholar.

• Anyone found cheating on any assignment in this course will receive an F in this course.
• Other consequences may include suspension or explusion from Washington University.

To avoid problems, it is important to understand what forms of collaboration are encouraged and which forms constitute cheating.

If you have any questions about this, please ask the instructor.

You are encouraged to work with other students on your assignments, and to help other students find and fix problems in their programs, provided that you comply with the following conditions:

• Honestly represent your work. The material you turn in for course credit must be a fair representation of your own work. Copying another's work is strictly prohibited.

• Give help appropriately. When helping someone, it is important not to simply give them a solution, because then they may not understand it fully and will not be able to solve a similar problem next time. It's always important to take the time to help someone think through the problem and develop the solution. Often, this can be accomplished by asking them a series of leading questions. Remember the old saying:
  Give someone a fish and they'll eat for a day.
  Teach someone to fish and they'll eat for a lifetime.

• Give credit for help received. If you receive help from people (besides the TAs and the instructor), you must list their names where appropriate using comments in the material you submit.

• Homework You are free to work with others on homework. You learn more by trying problems on your own, but when you get stuck, feel free to discuss and work on the homework problems collaboratively.

• Labs You are not allowed to work collaboratively on code. The code you submit must be your own, and we will run programs to identify if code has been copied.

  You may collaborate on the ideas and approaches used in a lab. Those discussions should not involve any specific code.

  You must list those with whom you have discussed a lab in the header block comment of your lab solutions.

• If in doubt, ask your instructor. Be sure to ask in advance if you have any doubts about whether a certain type of collaboriation is acceptable.