Parkland College 2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign, Illinois 61821

Csc 123, Computer Science I, Computing in Java

Parkland Core Values, Plagiarism and Disruptive Behavior

Fall 2006

Parkland Core Values

I believe strongly in the Core Values espoused by Parkland College: Honesty and Integrity, Fairness and Just Treatment, Responsibility, Multiculturalism, Education, and Public Trust.  Essentially, these values set guidelines for how we should treat you and how you should treat each other (and us).  Failure to be respectful of one another or to maintain ethical behavior will not be tolerated.   
 

Plagiarism

I encourage students to work together and help one another, but you must actually do and understand any work you hand in.  You must individually design and code your work independently from any other student, present or past.  There are no graded group projects in this course, and two or more students cannot submit work that is substantially the same.  The graded projects will be creative enough that students will be able to invent unique designs.  You are, however, encouraged to get as much appropriate help with your project as you need, both from the instructor and from other students.  The line between someone just helping you and someone doing the work for you can be fuzzy.  You have received only appropriate help when you personally create all the work you submit, and understand it well enough to do it again, without help, at the same level of quality.  The inability to explain, replicate, and otherwise demonstrate a thorough understanding of your submitted work is considered proof of plagiarism.  Submitting someone else's work, or giving your work to someone else to submit, is also certain and sufficient proof of plagiarism.  For example, if two students submit essentially the same program except for text changes to the variable names or comments, then both students are plagiarizing.  Be sure you do not leave your work on a disk or computer where another student may access it.  Also, you may not copy complete solutions, substantially complete solutions, or modify a solution from the public domain (such as the Internet) or from any other source and submit it as your own.  Nor can you have another person create a substantial part of your submitted work.  The instructor reserves the right to conduct a review and re-examination of any student's work, and adjust their grade accordingly.  Each instance of plagiarism will result in an 0 grade for the plagiarized project or assignment, and also a full letter grade penalty on the student's final resulting course grade.

Disruptive Behavior