Academic honesty is the policy of never taking credit for ideas which are not yours and of never attempting to gain an unfair advantage over your fellow students in the pursuit of higher grades. Academic honesty must be followed in this course, and it is a good policy to follow throughout your academic and non-academic life.
Most students know what is considered "unfair advantage". This list includes, but is not limited to, cheating on tests, having someone else write your programs, falsely representing yourself in regrade requests, and sabotaging the work of other students. Such conduct will be pursued under the college's academic offense policy.
Unless otherwise stated, all work is expected to be your own. You are free, and encouraged, to discuss general course themes and strategies, but you should not discuss specific solutions to homework assignments or programming projects.
If you do receive assistance from a source other than the course lecture notes, required textbook, class code examples, or instructor on an assignment, you must acknowledge this on your assignment submission. Such assistance may result in a reduced grade, but failing to credit the source of your work will be considered an academic offense. You do not need to acknowledge the course textbook, lecture notes, or class code examples because it is assumed that you are consulting these sources.
Please note that acknowledging the source of an idea does not mean that you can copy that source verbatim. You must always write the answers in your own words. Anything that is copied verbatim must be put inside quotes. Please not that a copied answer, if it is in quotes and is properly cited, will receive a very poor grade, but at least it is not an academic offense. On a program, if you copy code from another place that is not the course textbook or examples, you must indicate that in your program.
As a final note, if you are ever in doubt about what is or is not an academic offense, speak to the course instructor.