Assignments must
reflect individual work. Each student
must demonstrate that he or she can complete the assignment on their
own so you cannot copy the work of other students
nor can students work in groups. Any suspected
cases of cheating must be forwarded by me onto the Department Head,
which may be passed on further to the Office of the Dean of Science and
Student Services resulting in penalties such as failing the course or
even expulsion from the university.
A few questions and answers to help clarify things:
Q: What constitutes cheating in this course?
A: It is probably similar to what you have seen in other courses.
Cheating has occurred if you hand in someone else's work as if it were
your own (without crediting the other person). Furthermore
if a student knowingly provides his or her graded work to another
student then both students are guilty of academic misconduct
(the first student helped the second student to cheat).
Q: What happens if you include someone else's code and you do
credit the other person properly (this doesn't apply to your classmates,
recall that you are not to see the assignment code of other students)
e.g., You use the code from a text book and you include the following
citation: The function (listed below) for opening and reading
from a file was taken in it's entirety from the book "The Tao of file
systems" by James Tam.
A: This will not constitute cheating because you clearly indicated that
the work was not your own but since someone else did the work for that
section of your assignment you won't get credit for that part of the
assignment. You could get marks for the other parts of the assignment
that you wrote yourself. The crediting of other's people work must be
very specific and clear because your marker needs to be able to
unambiguously determine which parts of your program did you complete and
which parts came from an outside source. It's probably best to directly
document each block of external program code that you've used.
Q: What is the difference between getting help from someone vs.
cheating?
A: If you describe the process to someone
using plain English then you should be okay because then the person
still must figure out how to implement your generic ideas in the
appropriate programming language used for the course (both of you are
handing in separate submissions). If you simply give your
code to a friend then this is NOT okay, even if your friend says that he
or she will only use your solution only as a *guide*
to figure out the answer and *promises* that
he or she won't just copy it into their own program.
| Okay |
Not
okay |
| To
display the contents of a two-dimensional array onscreen you
will need two nested loops and two loop controls: one to keep
track of the row that is currently being displayed and one to
track the current column value. Start by
initializing the outer loop to the value of the lowest row value
and the inner loop to the value of the lowest column value and
display that array element. The inner loop will travel
along the row from the lowest column value to the highest column
value. After the last column has been reached, the outer
loop value increases by one which allows the inner loop to
traverse the second row. The outer loop will repeat
until all the rows have been traversed. |
for (r
= 0; r <= 4; r++)
for
(c = 0; c <= 4; c++)
sys.stdout.write(aGrid[r][c])
print()
|
Q: The code that you gave us in lecture would be really handy for our
assignments, are we allowed to use it and get credit for the work?
A: Yes, unless you are told otherwise you can make use of my sample code
and get credit. Just make sure that you indicate where you got
it from in your program documentation. Don't just include it
in your code without citing the source (in this case it's me) because
you will be claiming that this work is yours when it isn't so you will
be guilty of academic misconduct.
This list of questions only includes things that I thought up as I
writing the assignment specifications, if you ever unsure if a
particular situation constitutes cheating or not then it is up to you to
ask me. For you reference here is the brief discussion on academic
misconduct provide in the university calendar.