Assignments must reflect individual work. Each
student must demonstrate that he or she can complete the assignment on their
own so you cannot
copy the work of other students nor can students work
in groups. Any suspected cases of cheating must be
forwarded by me onto the Department Head, which may be passed on further to the
Office of the Dean of Science and Student Services resulting in penalties such as
failing the course or even expulsion from the university.
A few questions and answers to help clarify things:
Q: What constitutes cheating in this course?
A: It is probably similar to what you have seen in other courses. Cheating
has occurred if
you hand in someone else's work as if it were your own (without crediting the
other person). Furthermore if a student knowingly provides his or
her graded work to another student then both students are
guilty of academic misconduct (the first student helped the second student to
cheat).
Q: What happens if you include someone else's code and you do credit the other
person properly e.g., You use the code from a text book and you include the
following citation: The function (listed below) for opening and
reading from a file was taken in it's entirety from
the book "The Tao of file systems" by James Tam.
A: This will not constitute cheating because you clearly indicated that
the work was not your own. Just make sure that you indicate where you got it from in your
program documentation. Don't just include it in your code without
citing the source (even if it's from your instructor or someone working in the
Continuous Tutorial) because you will be claiming that
this work is yours when it isn't so you will be guilty of academic
misconduct. Note: The crediting of other's people work must be very specific
and clear because your marker needs to be able to unambiguously determine
which parts of your program you did complete and which parts came from an outside source. It's
probably best to specifically document each block of external program code
(e.g., function, branching or looping construct) that
you've used. Don't be vague e.g., Some parts of the program were written by me
and some other parts were written by someone else.
Q: What is the difference between getting help from someone vs. cheating?
A: If you describe the
process to someone using plain English then you
should be okay because then the person still must figure out how to implement
your generic ideas in the appropriate programming language used for the course (both of you are handing in separate
submissions). If you simply give (or communicate in some form) your code to a friend then this
is NOT okay,
even if your friend says that he or she will only use your solution only as a
*guide* to 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 row.
The outer loop will repeat until all the rows have been traversed.
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for r in range (0,
MAX_ROWS,
1):
for c in range (0,
MAX_COLUMNS,
1):
sys.stdout.write(aGrid[r][c])
print()
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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.