Policy on Academic Honesty

Don't cheat, please! All individual assignments are meant to be completed by each student. Collaboration on concepts is encouraged, but the submitted work (code, text, designs) must be your own. If we think cheating might have occurred, this can have serious consequences. Citing the Studienpräses (in German): "Ein 'Erschleichen' liegt vor, wenn eine fremde Leistung als Eigenleistung dargestellt wird [...]. Die gesamte PI-LV ist nicht zu beurteilen und ein 'X' in i3v mit dem entsprechenden Vermerk 'geschummelt / erschlichen' zu erfassen."

Discussion about labs is encouraged, but please do your own work (unless the task is specifically designed as a group project). Near-duplicate assignments will be considered cheating unless the assignment was restrictive enough to justify such similarities. Protect your work from being copied by others.

If source code (to enhance) or other material from the WWW is used, it should be acknowledged and a priori permission must be sought. Taking source code (or text/math) from a peer, the WWW, or a book to complete a lab makes you culpable of plagiarism ('X' with 'geschummelt / erschlichen'). Please note, that it is of course also not okay to copy large parts or even the whole code from somewhere else, even though you acknowledged it. This is like copying and pasting a book, putting your name on the cover, and hoping that nobody will find the fine-prints saying that it is actually from somebody else. If unclear, please talk to us before the submission. Justifications in hindsight are not possible.

Use of AI tools

We allow the use of AI coding assistants in this course as a learning and productivity aid, provided that usage is transparent and responsible:

• Disclosure required: For each assignment, briefly document whether and how you used AI (tool/model if known, and for what purpose). See AI Usage for details.
• Understanding required: You must be able to explain the code and design decisions you submit. We may conduct oral checks; failure to explain your code can result in a zero for that component.
• Verification required: You are responsible for verifying AI-suggested changes. Submitting wrong or misleading code due to AI is still your responsibility.

Prohibited:

• Undisclosed use of AI tools.
• Copying substantial code/text from peers or the Internet without attribution and without permission.
• Sharing your assignment code/text with others (beyond what is explicitly allowed by the assignment).
• Submitting code you cannot reasonably explain.

We will use automated tools and oral checks to verify originality and understanding. If unclear, talk to us before submission.