CHEATING POLICY

We believe in collaboration. Discussing problems with others helps you learn better. If you collaborate with others, try to get "hints" rather than "answers." You should write up your actual homework on your own. If you use an outside source (web site, book, person, etc.), you must cite that source. At the top of your homework sheet, you must list all the people with whom you discussed any problem. Even if you were the one doing the helping, you should list the other person. Crediting discussion with others will not take away any credit from you, and will prevent us from assuming cheating if your answers look similar to those of someone else. The above is the standard policy in all of academia.

All work in quizzes and exams must be done entirely by you with zero consultation from other sources (people, web, texts, etc.). Any incident of cheating during a quiz or other exam will result in a failing grade for the entire course and referral to the Office of Community Responsibility for an Academic Integrity Violation proceedings. Please familiarize yourself with the University Policy on Academic Integrity and the Academic Integrity Actions Procedures chapter of the Student Handbook.

Going to office hours and asking for help is NOT cheating. We STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to go to office hours. You will be reminded of this in every class. You are paying for our time. Please use it!

IMPORTANT: Large Language Models (LLMs ) should not be used for solving or writing up homework problems. Using LLMs will greatly impede your ability to solve problems on the quizzes and exams. We reserve the right to ask you to justify any formula or derivation that you use in your homework. If we suspect that you used an LLM to do your homework and you are unable to explain your work, we will give you a zero on the homework and you will be referred to the Office of Community Responsibility for an Academic Integrity Violation proceedings. A repeat violation may result in a score of 0% on the entire homework component. PLEASE just do the homework on your own, with the help of office hours and classmates. The problems are interesting and are designed to teach you skills.

Note: This policy was written without an LLM. You too can do it!