Plagiarism

All academic work, written or otherwise, that you submit is expected to be the result of your own thought, research, or self-expression. You may certainly discuss the programs with each other, but you must not show each other your code ; everyone must develop the code completely independently. It is a serious offense to allow other students to copy your work or to copy the work of other students (even if it is in a public computer file). If you borrow ideas, algorithms,wording, or code from other sources, you must acknowledge that fact or you have committed plagiarism. If you directly take more than about 4 words in a row from any source, you must indicate that you have done so, typically with a footnote or an in-line citation, using indentation or quote marks to set off the quoted text. (Some of this text is taken from the EDP202 plagiarism guide.) Offenses against this policy are punished quite strictly. I catch plagiarism practically every semester.

http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/courses/CS450/backgr.html.