Should any part of this policy be unclear or should you have any questions about how you are allowed to collaborate you are strongly encouraged to contact your professor.
Please do not DM, text, email or visit a TA’s personal space. This policy is in place because TAs are students with their own work and their own schedule; contacting them outside of their scheduled course activities violates professional boundaries and is an honor code violation.
The use of Large Language Models, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and other AI-based text and/or code generation tools, is strictly prohibited throughout the course except when explicitly allowed by the instructors. Beyond the use of AI, we ask that you do not use any extensions or software that may assist you in writing code. If you have any questions, please email us at cs003@caltech.edu.
| You may use the following resources: | Game Project | Physics Project | Webserver Project | Quizzes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course handouts | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Other books | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Your notes (taken in class) | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Class notes of others, copied by hand or summarized | YES | NO | NO | NO |
| Direct copies (such as photocopies, pictures, scans, printouts) of class notes of others | YES | NO | NO | NO |
| Your returned assignments | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Solutions to assignments / exams from previous years | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Solutions to assignments / exams from the current year, distributed by the instructor | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Consult online resources such as Wikipedia | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Consult existing material on online sources such as question/answer forums | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Consult course staff with questions in office hours | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Post questions about problems on online sources such as question/answer forums | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| For coding assignments, you may: | Game Project | Physics Project | Webserver Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Look at code written by other students in the class | NO | NO | NO |
| Look at code found in online repositories, or written by former students in the class | NO | NO | NO |
| Look at code written by anyone not in your group (including online resources or textbooks) | NO | NO | NO |
| Help other students write their code (* In the game project you must write your own code for your assigned features. This will be checked by the author name for commits on gitlab) | NO* | NO | NO |
| Help other students debug their code (* Only if you are in the same group) | YES* | NO | NO |
| Ask a non-student to help debug your code | NO | NO | NO |
| Use an extenal library, as long as it does not provide a direct solution | NO | NO | NO |
| Discuss high-level problems with others in small groups (beyond your partnership) | YES | YES | NO |
| Look at communal materials, such as a group discussion performed on a white board, while writing up your solution | YES | NO | NO |
| Write code without all your group members present (virtually or otherwise) | YES | N/A | N/A |
| Look at another student’s or group’s completed solution | NO | NO | NO |