I reserve the right to ask any student to explain to me their solution of any problem on any of the assignments.

I may do so either one on one, or during a lecture in front of the whole class.

The decision as to how I will ask the student is entirely up to me.

If I want to ask the student one on one, I will email them and give the student

either 6 hours (if my email is sent before 2 pm) or until 10 am the following morning to respond.

If I do not receive a response within that time period, I will refer the student to the Center for Student Conduct.

Homework

The students are alllowed to talk about ideas of the solutions. However, their implementations of these ideas must be completely their own.
(It may be useful for you to know that no two codes written by two people independently, even using the same idea, will look remotely similar. This is based on my experience seeing many tens of such codes.)

Violations of academic integrity will be referred by me to the Center for Student Conduct (CSC). I will follow the rules described below in recommending to the CSC a penalty to be imposed to the parties involved. The CSC ultimately decides whether to follow my recommendation or not.

  - The first time that I detect excessive collaboration, as defined above, on (even part of) a homework assignment, I will impose the penalty from 50% (very unlikely) to 150% (very likely) of your entire assignment grade; this decision is left completely up to me.
Example 1:
Students A and B have been found to collaborate on 1 problem in a homework assignment. Suppose this entire homework assignment is worth 2% of the final course grade. Then, students A and B's grade for this assignment will be  between 1% (50% of the total of 2%) of the final course grade and -1% [minus 1 percent] of the final course grade. If violation is detected only in 1 problem, and all other problems clearly show the students' own work, I may (but am not under any obligation to) consider assigning the grade between 0 and 1%, i.e. in the higher range.
Example 2:
Students C and D have been found to to collaborate on 2 problems of the same assignment. These students' grade for this assignment will be -1% [minus 1 percent] of the final course grade.

   - In case of the second violation, I will recommend that the student(s) be given an XF for the course.

    All people involved in a given violation will be given the same penalty. This rule will not be changed under any circumstances. 


Exams

  -  Remember that your work on the take-home exam must be entirely your own. Thus, you are not allowed to discuss the exam problems with anyone else (whether it is your classmate or anyone else).
If a student is found to be in violation of this rule, I will recommend to the CSC that the student be given an XF for the course.