CPSC 233: Assignment Submission Guidelines

Points to keep in mind:

1. Make sure you read the assignment specifications for each assignment! 

2. All assignments are due at 4 PM sharp!  Lateness submissions will not be accepted.  Teaching Assistants cannot grant assignment extensions.  In extraordinary circumstances (e.g., illness an extension  may be granted by the course instructor only. 

3. Assignments must be submitted electronically and in paper form:

1. Electronic submissions: All source code files must be electronically submitted using the Unix program called "submit".   Do not email your code to your T.A. (or to me for that matter - I don't want to receive several emails for each of the six assignments).  Depending upon the particular assignment you may have submit other files - with assignment look under the "Other Submission Requirements" section  for further instructions.
2. Paper submissions: you must hand in a printout that includes: a README file and all source code files (".java" files)  The contents of the README file will differ depending upon the specific assignment (additional details will provided for these assignments) but at a minimum the README should indicate what grade level that you are aiming for (e.g., you have completed all the requirements for an 'A' level assignment).   Staple together all paper submissions and the whole package should have the following information on the inside cover (don't write your name and ID number on the outside cover):

• Your Name
• Your University Identification Number
• The course name (CPSC) and number (233)
• The name of your tutorial instructor
• The tutorial number that you are registered in
• The assignment number

Assignments are then to be handed into the appropriate drop box on the second floor of Math Sciences on the northernmost portion of the floor near the rest rooms.  The slots will be labelled by course number and lab number - it is up to you to ensure that your printout goes into the correct box. 

4. Assignments must reflect your individual work - you are not allowed to copy the work of other students.  Any suspected cases of cheating must be forwarded onto the Department Head, which may result in penalties such as failing the course or even expulsion from the university.

A few questions and answers to help clarify things:

Q: What exactly constitutes cheating in this course? 
A: It is probably similar to what you have seen in other courses.  Cheating occurs if you hand in someone else's work as if it were your own (without crediting the other person). 

Q: What happens if you include someone else's code and you do credit the other person properly e.g., The code listed below came from the book "Pascal Programming and Problem Solving" by Leestma and Nyhoff. 
A: This will not constitute cheating but since someone else did the work for that section of your assignment you won't get credit for it e.g., if you were supposed to get a letter grade for writing the code to display a list but instead you copied the code to it then you wouldn't get credit for the work because you didn't write it yourself.
 

Q: What is the difference between getting help from someone vs. cheating?
A: If you describe the algorithm to someone using plain English then you should be okay.  If you give your code to friend to use this is not okay, even if your friend says that he or she will only use your solution as a guide in order figure out the answer and "promises" that he or she won't just copy it into their own program. 
 

Okay

Not okay

To display the contents of a two-dimensional array onscreen you will need two nested loops and two loop controls: one to keep track of the row that is currently being displayed and one to track the current column value.   Start by initializing the outer loop to the value of the lowest row value and the inner loop to the value of the lowest column value and display that array element.  The inner loop will travel along the row from the lowest column value to the highest column value.  After the last column has been reached, the outer loop value increases by one which allows the inner loop to traverse the second lowest row.  The outer loop will repeat until all the rows have been traversed.

for r := 1 to 10 do begin    for c := 1 to 10 do    begin       write (arr[r][c]);    end;    writeln; end;

Q: The code that you gave us in lecture or lab would be really handy for our assignments, are we allowed to use it?
A: Yes, just make sure that you indicate where you got it from in your program documentation.
 

This list of questions only includes things that I thought up as I writing the assignment specifications, if you ever unsure if a particular situation constitutes cheating or not then it is up to you to ask me.