Comp 750 Honor code
Students are encouraged to work together on
written homework assignments. Acceptable
collaboration on written homework assignments includes:
- Discussing the assigned problems to
understand their meaning.
- Discussing possible approaches to
assigned problems.
In all cases you must explicitly
acknowledge any and all
substantive help received from other individuals during the course of
the preparation of your homework solution. That is, if you collaborate
with other individuals then you must include an explicit
acknowledgment in your homework solution of the persons from whom you
received aid. You should include the acknowledgement with your Honor
Code pledge. Acknowledging others, if done properly, will not
adversely affect your grade.
Unacceptable
collaboration includes:
- Copying (verbatim use) of solutions
authored by other
students.
- Copying solutions passed out in Comp
750 in previous years.
- Copying solutions found on the
Internet, passed out in other
courses (except courses you have taken), or found in other textbooks
or research papers (unless otherwise indicated as acceptable by the
instructor).
- Submission of solutions that are
jointly authored, or authored
either wholly or in part by other individuals.
The general rule to be followed is that the
strategy and approach of
solutions may be developed jointly but all
actual solutions (i.e., the final solution) must be constructed
and written up
individually. Work done jointly should not be done in sufficient
detail as to make it a final solution. For example, solutions may
sketched out jointly; however, each student must construct the final
form of their solution individually and write-up their own solution.
Any form of unacceptable collaboration
will be considered a violation
of the UNC Honor Code and will be reported to the Student Attorney
General.
Should questions arise in the course of
working on a problem please
feel free to immediately contact the instructor either by telephone,
electronic mail, or by an office visit. In principle, if you work with
others in good faith and are honest and generous with your
attributions of credit you should have no problems.