You are expected to keep any returned work and keep track of your own scores until final grades are determined.

Attendance: You are expected to attend and participate in all classes. You do not need to receive "permission" to miss class – stuff happens. However, missing more than a week (3 days of class) total is unacceptable without legitimate reason. Unacceptable attendance will reduce your score by a letter grade.

You are responsible for finding out what went on in class, including announcements and all material covered.

Make up exams and assignments are available for legitimate reasons only (as determined by University policy and the Instructor). Make arrangements ahead of time if at all possible. Be prepared to submit evidence to support your request. Late assignments are generally not accepted. All assignments will require completion outside of class time.

Work on these assignments must be entirely your own, or in the case of group assignments, the members of the group. Cite any help received, including other students, tutors, books and web sites! Be specific. (Help or code provided by the instructor, the class web site and/or notes, or the course text is considered part of the course itself and need not be explicitly acknowledged in your assignments.) Use of material from another book or downloaded from the Internet or copying code from another person are all examples of plagiarism. Citations must appear in the required comments at the beginning of each assignment.

Typically, assignments are structured to enhance and assess your understanding of the material covered in class, in the text, or as assigned. For this reason, you must complete assignments using the methods and techniques covered in class and as specified in the assignment. Presume that each assignment is intended to exercise the most recent material covered. (That is, you can't just Google a way to do whatever it is or use material from chapters not yet covered in class. It's like learning and doing "long division" as opposed to using a calculator.) You may use more advanced (different) techniques which you have learned on your own only with explicit permission from the Instructor.

If you are being tutored, make sure the tutor is helping you to understand what we have learned in class (or the text), not alternate techniques. While group tutoring on classroom topics is perfectly acceptable, group tutoring on the completion of an assignment is not. This amounts to working together, which is only acceptable for group members and assignments set up by the instructor. I encourage tutors to meet with me — you should also encourage him or her. Tutors should never be showing you how to complete the assignment. Rather, they should be helping you understand the material and methods covered in class so you can complete the assignment yourself.

Read the material before attending "lecture" on it. Disruptive (or abusive) behavior will not be tolerated at any time.

You are required to adhere to all Department and University policies related to academic integrity. Plagiarism, cheating on exams or copying assignments will be cause for failure of the course and may result in dismissal from the University. For our purposes, plagiarism is defined as presenting anyone else's work as your own, including the use of source code (in any language) or algorithms (program design) that are not your own original creation. Academic dishonesty will minimally result in a zero on the assignment or test, and possibly an F for the course, at the Instructor's discretion.