Should any part of this policy be unclear or should you have any questions about how you are allowed to collaborate you are strongly encouraged to contact your professor.
Please do not ever DM, text, email or visit a TA’s personal space. This policy is in place because TAs are students with their own work and their own schedule; contacting them outside of their scheduled course activities blatantly violates both their and your professional boundaries and is an honor code violation.
| You may use the following resources: | Labs | Projects | First Attempt Diagnostics | Second Attempt Diagnostics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course handouts | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Other books | YES | YES | NO | NO |
| Your notes (taken in class) | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Class notes of others, copied by hand or summarized | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| Direct copies (such as photocopies, pictures, scans, printouts) of class notes of others | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| Your returned assignments | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| Solutions to assignments / exams from previous years | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Solutions to assignments / exams from the current year, distributed by the instructor | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Consult material posted publicly on the course forum (e.g. Piazza or other) | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| Post questions about problems on the course forum (e.g. Piazza or other), provided the question does not reveal a partial solution | YES | YES | NO | NO |
| Consult online resources such as Wikipedia | YES | YES | NO | NO |
| Consult existing material on online sources such as question/answer forums | YES | YES | NO | NO |
| Consult course staff with questions not on the course forum | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| Post questions about problems on online sources such as question/answer forums | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| For coding assignments, you may: | Labs | Projects |
|---|---|---|
| Look at code written by other students in the class | NO | NO |
| Look at code found in online repositories, or written by former students in the class | NO | NO |
| Look at code written by anyone not in your group (including online resources or textbooks) | NO | NO |
| Help other students debug their code | NO | NO |
| Ask a non-student to help debug your code | NO | NO |
| Use an external library, as long as it does not provide a direct solution | NO | NO |
| Discuss high-level problems with others in small groups (beyond your partnership) | YES | YES |
| Write pseudocode with others in small groups (beyond your partnership) | NO | NO |
| Look at communal materials, such as a group discussion performed on a white board, while writing up your solution | NO | NO |
| Write code without all your group members present (virtually or otherwise) | NO | YES |
| Look at another student’s or group’s completed or partially completed solution | NO | NO |