Honor Code

Participating in the course requires you to accept the following honor code, which is an adaptation of the one used by Stanford University.

The Honor Code is an undertaking of the students, individually and collectively:

  • that they will not give or receive aid in examinations; that they will not give or receive unpermitted aid in class work, in the preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by the instructor as the basis of grading;
  • that they will do their share and take an active part in seeing to it that others as well as themselves uphold the spirit and letter of the Honor Code.

In practice, this means that:

  • You must do all assignments by yourself, without help or collaboration with other students, unless explicitly allowed or required
  • Thus, you must write your own assignments, and take the quizzes by yourself, without discussing them with other students until you have submitted your own
  • Some activities may require collaboration; if you are required to do something in small teams, it will be mentioned separately
  • You must reference any sources you use, including the course textbook.

Violations of the Honor Code

Examples of conduct that have been regarded as being in violation of the Honor Code include:

  • Unpermitted collaboration
  • Plagiarism: the use, without giving reasonable and appropriate credit to or acknowledging the author or source, of another person's original work, whether such work is made up of code, formulas, ideas, language, research, strategies, writing or other form(s).
  • Revising and resubmitting a quiz or exam for regrading, without the instructor’s knowledge and consent
  • Giving or receiving unpermitted aid on a take-home examination
  • Representing as one’s own work the work of another
  • Giving or receiving aid on an academic assignment under circumstances in which a reasonable person should have known that such aid was not permitted
  • Copying from another’s examination paper or allowing another to copy from one’s own paper

Consequences of violating the honor code

If you violate the honor code, you (and any other student involved in the violation) will:

  • fail the course, losing all points awarded so far
  • face any and all penalties imposed by the University's official body handling cases of academic violations.
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