Academic integrity

For Cornell's policy on academic integrity, see: The Code of Academic Integrity.

This course

Throughout the course, you are encouraged to discuss the readings with others, to share ideas, and to collaborate in problem sharing. However, the assignments in this course are individual assignments. You should do them by yourself and not share any parts of your programs with your colleagues.

Professional computing

More generally, computing is a collaborative activity. Professional practice expects people to work together and to share their expertise.

1. Where a group of people work together on a task, all should be named on the work products. People should usually be listed in alphabetical order, but team leaders can be identified specifically.
   
2. People outside the group who contribute to part of a task should be acknowledged, with a short statement of what they contributed. (For example, "X provided comments on the first draft of this report", or, "The method used in this sections was suggested by Y".)
   
3. Work that is taken from external sources, such as published materials or the source code of other programs, should be referenced.

To make use of the expertise of others and to build on previous work, with proper attribution, is good professional practice. To use the efforts of others without attribution is professionally unethical and academically is plagiarism.