CS5034 General Rules for Homework Assignments

Fall, 1997

  1. The Graduate Honor Code applies to this course and will be strictly enforced.
  2. Homework solutions must be submitted as a Postscript file. It is the student's responsibility to deliver a document that can be viewed successfully by the GTA using a the standard ``Ghostview'' postscript previewer. Submitting an assignment that cannot be viewed successfully by the GTA will result in a significant point deduction for that assignment.
  3. Assignments will be submitted for grading by emailing the Postscript file to the CS5034 class account (cs5034@ei.cs.vt.edu) by the assignment due date/time. It is the student's responsibility to insure that the assignment has been received - on time - by CS5034 class account.
  4. Two students may turn in a homework assignment for joint credit. In this case, both students will normally receive the same grade. You are free to work with a partner on some assignments or on no assignments. You are free to use different partners for different assignments. Groups of more than two people working together on an assignment are strictly forbidden and will be treated as an honor code violation. While students are allowed to work in pairs, both students involved must completely understand the answers that they submit. To verify that this is so, the instructor reserves the right to require any student to present the answers to their homework assignment verbally, and may reduce credit given for the assignment if the verbal answer is not compatible with the written answer.
  5. ALL homework submissions must contain the following Pledge Statement:

    ``I understand the answers that I have submitted. The answers submitted have not been directly copied from another source, but instead are written in my own words.''

  6. All students are permitted to turn in one homework assignment (except the last one) up to one week late without penalty. Otherwise, no late homework will be accepted, except in extraordinary circumstances.
  7. Assignments submitted ``a few minutes late'' will receive a flat 5 point penalty, regardless of the value of the assignment. There ONLY exception to this rule will be if the student elects to exercise his or her one-late-assignment option.