All Georgia Tech students are expected to uphold the Georgia Tech Academic Honor Code. The majority of work for this class is to be performed individually. For the practicum project, all project related deliverables should be performed as a team.

Violations include:

• Copying, with or without modification, someone else's work when this work is not meant to be publicly accessible. (Example: a classmate's program or solution.)
• Submission of material that is wholly or substantially identical to that created or published by another person or persons, without adequate credit notations indicating authorship (plagiarism). (Example: copying code from a public source that is not included in the course materials or is otherwise official documentation without citing the source.)
• Asking for help with your code in a public forum (StackOverflow, Reddit, etc.) is disallowed.
• Posting any code publicly, either in course communication tools or outside of the course (e.g. public GitHub repositories), is also grounds for academic action unless explicitly stated as permissible, or if students are instructed to do so by instructional staff in limited circumstances where it may be required at a technical level. (Note: Unless it directly reveals solutions related to individual work, original project work may be allowed in public repositories as long as no other violations exist.)
• Use of Generative AI/LLMs/etc. tools such as GitHub co-pilot or GPT applications (e.g., ChatGPT) may produce answers or code that qualifies as plagiarism and should be used with caution. Use of answers or code produced wholly or substantially by any such tool is explicitly disallowed and considered an academic integrity violation. While the topic is covered in course material, students are enrolled in a specific capacity and the act of learning concepts is different from the act of using a tool professionally. This is, essentially, when students should learn how to responsibly use such tooling, including its limitations.
  • Note: Use of generative AI tools in the context of the practicum project may be more permissible. Students should consult with their mentors during project execution for situation clarification.        
  • Gen AI tools may also be used for general pointers in the right direction, as long as students are not copying complete code as-is. (Example: tips on how to approach a particular generic task in Python.)

Note that students are encouraged to discuss problems and papers with others as long as this does not involve copying of code or solutions.