Policies

Late Homework Policy

• Students are allowed to use up to 48 late hours. Late hours must be used in units of whole hours. Specify the number of hours used when turning in the assignment. TA support may be unavailable over the weekends.

• Students can use late hours for projects. The number of late hours used on the report will be deducted from each group member.

• Late hours cannot be used on the final exam. 

Collaboration Policy (Summary)

Full Policy details found in table below.

Homeworks

Policy taken from CS 1:

It is common for students to discuss ideas for the homework assignments. When you are helping another student with their homework, you are acting as an unofficial teaching assistant, and thus must behave like one. Do not just answer the question or dictate the code to others. If you just give them your solution or code, you are violating the Honor Code. To clarify how you can help and/or discuss ideas with other students (especially when it comes to coding and proofs), we want you to obey the "50 foot rule". This rule states that your own solution should be at least 50 feet away. If you are helping another student but cannot without consulting your solution, don't help them, and refer them instead to a teaching assistant. 

Mini-projects

Students can collaborate fully within their miniproject teams, but no collaboration is allowed between teams.

Final Exam

No collaboration of any kind is allowed. 

Policy on the use of large language models (LLMs)

Homework assignments

Students are expected to complete homework assignments based on their understanding of the course material.  Student can use LLMs as a resource (e.g., helping with debugging, or grammar checking), but the assignments (including reports and code) should be principally authored by the student. 

Projects

Students are allowed and encouraged to explore tools like LLMs as a way to supplement learning, not as a shortcut. If students use LLMs in their projects, they must explain in the report how LLMs contribute to the project, providing details like the text and code generated by LLMs. 

Final exam

No use of large language models is allowed. 

Collaboration Policy (Full)