This class operates under the University of Utah policy for student conduct. There are specific topics on which the policy for this class is more nuanced.

• All students must turn in homeworks individually, in electronic form, preferably using LaTeX.
• Students may form groups for homework discussion. In fact, this can often be very helpful when trying to crack hard problems.
• Any assignment submitted late will be docked 10% for each working day past the deadline upto a maximum of 50% (this effectively gives you a week). After a week, the assignment will not be graded and will be scored as a 0. There are no exceptions.
• Please cite ALL sources used as part of a homework. This means
• If you discuss homework with others, cite them
• If you find a solution in wikipedia, cite it
• If you found an answer, or a partial answer, or a hint to an answer, on the web somewhere, cite the location
• if you found a solutions manual via bittorrent, cite it
• If you talked to a student from previous year, cite them
• If you got ANY material for ANY part of ANY answer from SOMEONE or SOMETHING OR SOMEWHERE that is not the inside of your head, CITE IT !
• If you’re not sure whether to cite, then you should be citing.
• if you’re totally confused, ASK before doing anything.

If you cite all your sources, you may not get the maximum marks, but if you don’t cite relevant sources, you will get a ZERO on that assignment. Note that the School of Computing has a new two-strikes-and-out policy on reported instances of cheating. It’s not worth it !

This is a graduate class, and the citation principles described here reflect academic integrity rules out in the real world. I strongly recommend that you comply with them.