Honesty in Communications

Individuals are expected to be honest and forthcoming in communications with TAs and the instructors.

School Appropriateness of Content

Note that one of our course policies is to engender an inclusive environment. As such it is important that you are thoughtful about what you choose to use in your work. Please make sure that the images and text you are using are “school appropriate” and follow the guidelines of expected behavior. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask a TA or your instructors. Inappropriate work submitted may be ineligible for credit on that assignment.

Copyright and Citations

All of the expressions of ideas in this class that are fixed in any tangible medium such as digital and physical documents are protected by copyright law as embodied in title 17 of the United States Code. These expressions include the work product of both: (1) your student colleagues (e.g., any assignments published here in the course environment or statements committed to text in a discussion forum); and, (2) your instructor (e.g., the syllabus, assignments, reading lists, and lectures). Within the constraints of "fair use," you may copy these copyrighted expressions for your personal intellectual use in support of your education here in the UW. Such fair use by you does not include further distribution by any means of copying, performance or presentation beyond the circle of your close acquaintances, student colleagues in this class and your family. If you have any questions regarding whether a use to which you wish to put one of these expressions violates the creator's copyright interests, please feel free to ask the instructor for guidance.

The essence of academic life revolves around respect not only for the ideas of others, but also their rights to those ideas. It is therefore essential that we take the utmost care that the ideas (and the expressions of those ideas) of others always be handled appropriately, and, where necessary, cited. When ideas or materials of others are used (particularly in your creative projects), they must be cited. The citation format is not that important - as long as the source material can be located and the citation verified, it's OK. In any situation, if you have a question, please feel free to ask.

You must have the right to publish any of the images, videos, text, or other media in any creative work you do for this class. This means you may use:

• Media you have created or generated yourself (i.e. pictures you have created or taken yourself, text you have written yourself.)
• Images that are in the public domain (something from Wikipedia), or something with a creative commons license that allows for reuse without explicit permission of the owner.
  • Creative Commons Kiwi is a really informative video on Creative Commons licensing.
  • Instructions on how to search for images that are fair use are here.
  • You must cite any works that you use that you did not generate yourself (although technically you only need to cite things that are CC Attribution) A handy site for knowing how to add your citations is here.

Collaboration Policies

Computer science education is odd in that we expect you to turn in work that you do completely independently when in the "real world" that’s not how it works at all. In the real world, co-workers collaborate, bounce ideas off each other, they look up parts of solutions on the internet. But in the "real world" the people doing the work have years of experience, they have proved themselves to their teachers, co-workers and bosses to where they are at that moment and most importantly, they know how to evaluate which of the solutions they are receiving is an appropriate one to solve the task at hand.

As your instructor, I need to be able to evaluate your work. Thus, unless otherwise specified (i.e. pair or group work), all work in this and other CS classes must be your own. You may wind up using other people or online resources to learn how to achieve new things, but we expect you to synthesize this work in your own way and learn to write your own code. You should never copy (plagiarize) homework or code from another person in this school (past or present) or that you find online directly and submitting it as your own work.

Specifically, you must abide by the following:

• You may not use code directly from any external sources (including copying lecture/section material in programming assignments).
• You may not post your homework solutions on a publicly accessible (non-password-protected) web server or Git repository, during the course or after it has been completed. Please see the course website for acceptable ways to show your work to others.
• You may not look at or use prior solutions from any source.

In short: you should think of most assignments in this class as assessments and as such, complete them independently - unless otherwise told.

Privacy

To support an academic environment of rigorous discussion and open expression of personal thoughts and feelings, we, as members of the academic community, must be committed to the inviolate right of privacy of our student and instructor colleagues. As a result, we must forego sharing personally identifiable information about any member of our community including information about the ideas they express, their families, lifestyles and their political and social affiliations. If you have any questions regarding whether a disclosure you wish to make regarding anyone in this course or in the university community violates that person's privacy interests, please feel free to ask the instructor for guidance.

Knowingly violating any of these principles of academic conduct, privacy or copyright may result in University disciplinary action under the Student Code of Conduct.