All individual assignments must be done independently and all group assignments must be done by group members only, or you will be penalized for cheating. USC Student Handbook prohibits plagiarism. All USC students are responsible for reading and following the Student Handbook.

In this course we encourage students to study together. This includes discussing general strategies to be used on individual/warmup assignments. However, all work submitted for the class is to be done individually. (For a group/kernel assignment, the entire group is considered as one individual since only one submission is expected from a group.)

For this class, one thing you must not do is to access programming assignments done by other students in the current or a previous semester. Therefore, if you have a copy of any of our programming assignments written by someone else, you must not look at the code or even run the code. You should get rid of such code.

Some other examples of what is not allowed by the handbook: copying all or part of someone else's work (by hand or by looking at others' files, either secretly or with permission), and submitting it as your own; giving another student in the class a copy of your code; knowingly let another student (current or future) have a copy of your code; writing code together for an individual assignment and share the collaboratively written code; consulting with another student during an exam. If you have questions about what is allowed, please discuss it with the instructor.

Students who violate University standards of academic integrity are subject to disciplinary sanctions, including failure in the course and suspension from the University. Since dishonesty in any form harms the individual, other students, and the University, policies on academic integrity will be strictly enforced. We expect you to familiarize yourself with the Academic Integrity guidelines found in the Academic Integrity section of the USC Student Handbook.

Violations of the Student Handbook will be filed with the Office of Academic Integrity, and appropriate sanctions will be given. Please see the Academic Integrity section of the USC Student Handbook.

For an overview of the USC student judicial process and browse frequently asked questions and answers, please visit the USC Office of Academic Integrity (OAI) page.

For take-home exams, you will asked to sign and submit an Academic Integrity Honor Code Pledge for each of the exams. You will be required to turn in such a signed pledge in order for you to be eligible to take the corresponding take-home exam. The instructions to submitting the pledges will be made available as an exam draws near. Please read every word of it carefully before you sign it.

Please see Other Violations of Academic Integrity section of the USC Student Handbook regarding appropriate use of course notes and recordings.