[Updated August 30, 2007.  This document is based on a similar document written by Prof. Scott Baden.]

Cheating is not only dishonest, but also self-destructive.  Some of the principles of academic honesty that are especially important in CSE courses are:

• Plagiarism is a very serious violation.  All the writing in your documentation and/or reports must be your own work.  You may not copy sentences or paragraphs from books, web pages, other students, or any other source.  If you quote or use anything written by anyone else, you must indicate very clearly that it is a quotation and you must provide a full citation.
• All the programming code that you claim credit for (implicitly or explicitly) must be your own creation.  If you use software written by anyone else, you must disclose this very clearly both in your code and in all accompanying documentation and reports.
• Tables and figures of experimental results, and transcripts that show how your programs run, must be genuine and not misleading.  It may happen that some of your code or algorithms do not work correctly.  In this case you must mention and explain this situation in documentation and reports.

Each student is responsible for knowing and abiding by the UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship, as described in the UCSD General Catalog. A student violating this policy will be reported to the appropriate dean for administrative action, such as probation or expulsion from UCSD, in addition to any academic penalty imposed by the instructor in the course.

The following is an excerpt from the UCSD General Catalog (1997-8) on "Students' Responsibility."
 
 

No student shall engage in any activity that involves attempting to receive a grade by means other than honest effort, for example:

1. No student shall knowingly procure, provide, or accept any unauthorized materials that contains questions or answers to any examination or assignment to be given at a subsequent time.
2. No student shall complete, in part or in total, any examination or assignment for another person.
3. No student shall knowingly allow any examination or assignment to be completed, in part or in total, for himself or herself by another person.
4. No student shall plagiarize or copy the work of another person and submit it as his or her own work.
5. No student shall employ aids excluded by the instructor in undertaking course work.
6. No student shall alter graded class assignments or examinations and then resubmit them for re-grading.
7. No student shall submit substantially the same material in more than one course without prior authorization.

1. All source code and documentation submitted for evaluation or existing inside the student's computer accounts must be the student's original work or material specifically authorized by the instructor. (Students may accept material relevant to an assignment after the assignment is completed, however.)
2. Collaborating with other students to develop, complete or correct course work is limited to activities explicitly authorized by the Instructor. Use of other student's course work, in part or in total, to develop, complete or correct course work is unauthorized, including course material submitted in past offerings of the course.
3. No student shall make available to others source code or documentation useful in completing an assignment, nor procure or accept such material. This includes students in current and future offerings of the course, and applies to electronic transmissions including email, web pages, ftp, and so on, as well as hard copy such as source code listings.
4. No student shall knowingly permit such information to be conveyed to others for the purpose of completing an assignment.