If you need to miss class, lab, or help sessions due to illness, family circumstances, etc., please watch the videos, and either let me know that you need an extension on the homework so that you can attend help sessions when you are feeling better, or contact me to set up some virtual help session times.
If you have any possible COVID symptoms (including minor ones like a sore throat, runny nose, ...), please do not attend lecture, lab, or help sessions until your symptoms are resolved and you have recevied a negative COVID test. If you test positive, please follow university guidelines regarding isolation for 5-10 days and masking.
All students are expected to be familiar with, and to comply with, the Honor Code. Unless otherwise stipulated, any work submitted as a homework assignment or examination must be entirely your own and may not be derived from the work of others, whether a published or unpublished source, a web site, a generative AI tool, another student, other textbooks, materials from another course, from prior semesters of this course, or any other person or program. You may not copy, examine, or alter anyone else's homework assignment or computer program, or use a computer program to transcribe or otherwise modify or copy anyone else's files.
Collaboration policies for specific assignments:
Examples of allowed collaboration: you may discuss the problems ("what does this mean?") and discuss solution approaches in general terms ("try doing induction on xs"). You may sketch solutions to problems with other students on paper or on a board but you must discard whatever you do together and not take any notes away from this, and you must each independently write up the solution after waiting at least 2 hours.
Examples of disallowed collaboration: you may not pair program (unless it is a group assignment), give or receive solution files, or read someone else's code on their screen or via a video chat.
You should understand everything you hand in well enough that you can quickly recreate it from scratch if asked.
Late homeworks will only be accepted by permission from the instructor. But please do feel free to ask for permission if you have any special circumstances (illness, family circumstances, ...).
My goal is to welcome all students to computer science. I believe that everyone in the class is fully capable of mastering the material. Our classroom should be an inclusive space, where everyone is treated with respect, and ideas, questions, and misconceptions are discussed with respect. All students are encouraged to actively participate, regardless of gender, race, class, able-bodiedness, nationality, native language, sexual orientation, political ideology, or religious beliefs. All students are responsible for contributing to a welcoming environment in all course activities, such as labs, TA sessions, and online posts. If the course environment does not meet these standards, I would appreciate it if you would speak to me about it, so that I can do better in the future.
Wesleyan University is committed to ensuring that all qualified students with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from its programs and services. To receive accommodations, a student must have a documented disability as defined by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, and provide documentation of the disability. Since accommodations may require early planning and generally are not provided retroactively, please contact Disability Resources as soon as possible. If you believe that you need accommodations for a disability, please contact Dean Patey in Disability Resources, located in North College, Room 021, or call 860-685-2332 for an appointment to discuss your needs and the process for requesting accommodations.