Integrity of Scholarship Agreement

This document constitutes an agreement by the student to abide by the rules regarding Integrity of Scholarship. All students enrolled in this course implicitly agree to abide by these policies and will seek authorized assistance when in need of help. 

Plagiarism will not be tolerated in this course.  Incidents of plagiarism will be taken seriously, and could result in your expulsion from the University. 

Cheating is not only dishonest, but is self-destructive. Authorized course assistance is available in person and via email from the Instructor, Teaching Assistants, lab tutors, and OASIS.

While it is often a good idea to talk with your classmates about your assignments, any work you turn in must be your own. For example, you must not do the following.

• Submit any source code written by another person, nor copy another person's answers or writeup
• Submit code you have previously submitted to another course for credit without first obtaining permission from Professor Baden. The same restriction holds for publicly available code that you haven't written. If you do get permission from Professor Baden to use the code, then you must cite the source, including a URL and/or any book that accompanies the code. Be sure to give the author(s) credit, consistent with any statement they require you to include in your code.
• Use notes taken during any discussions with classmates about an assignment.
• Use words or text written by someone else without citing text appropriately. Every figure or sentence fragment must be appropriately decorated with quotation marks or indention to indicate very clearly that someone else wrote the text. In addition, the passage must be labeled with a citation or citation number which refers to a footnote or bibliographic entry. Citing a paper once is not enough. Remember: citations should be used to illuminate a viewpoint which you hold. They are not a substitute for expressing your own ideas in your own words.
• Submit any portion(s) of a paper you have previously submitted for credit in another course.

Finally, any work you do in an exam must be your own.  You must not copy someone else's answers.

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. Academic penalties include, but are not limited to, receiving a grade of 0 for the assignment or test in question, receiving an 'F' for the course. Please see a very important document regarding this policy by clicking on the URL    http://www-irps.ucsd.edu/irps/student/plagiarism.html and by consulting the following  excerpt from the UCSD General Catalog (1999-2000) on "Students' Responsibility"

STUDENTS' RESPONSIBILITY

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.

For programming classes the above regulations imply the following.

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.