Part of the course team's job is to guide your growth as a member of the academic community. Upholding academic integrity by engaging with existing knowledge respectfully and contributing your own work is essential to this. Sometimes students who are experiencing a lot of pressure or stress feel that the only way to deal with the situation is to cheat. Please do not do this. Instead, reach out to the course team and we will find a way to help you through the difficulties you are facing. Cheating is never the right or only option, and every student we've had to report for academic misconduct has regretted their actions and wished that they'd made a different choice.

The Department of Computer Science has a detailed Policy regarding collaboration on academic work in addition to UBC's Academic Honesty and Standards Policy and definition of academic misconduct. As a UBC student, it is your responsibility to read, understand, and follow these policies.

In CPSC 110, our specific rules about academic integrity and collaboration are as follows:

1. All work that you submit in the course must be your own work. This means that you must start your designs from scratch (i.e. entirely from the beginning without using anything that already exists), or from a starter file that the course team provides. Submitting any amount of copied code is considered academic misconduct. This includes, but is not limited to, referencing or copying:
   • Any solutions or code found online, including code produced by generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT).
   • Any solutions or code developed by another person.
   • Any solutions or code posted by the course team in a previous or current term of CPSC 107 or CPSC 110.
   • Any solutions or code you wrote during a previous term of CPSC 107 or CPSC 110.
   • Any solutions or code you wrote during another course.
2. You must abide by our problem set Policy. That is:
• Problem sets must be completed individually. Doing so is challenging, but it is the best way to prepare for solving problems by yourself during exams, where you won't be able to get help or ask questions.
• The Piazza discussion forum is the only place that you are permitted to ask questions about and/or discuss the problem sets.
3. No collaboration of any kind is permitted during the midterms or during the final exam.
4. You can discuss lecture problems, practice problems from the problem bank, and practice exams with other students and TAs during lectures, labs, and office hours, but again, you are not permitted to copy or share any code.

Any violation of the rules listed above will result in a 0 on the work containing misconduct and will be reported, in writing, to the Dean of Science's office.

Everyone involved with CPSC 110 is responsible for understanding and abiding by the UBC Statement on Respectful Environment for Students, Faculty and Staff. The statement speaks to our freedoms and our responsibilities, and provides the guiding principles to support us in building an environment in which respect, civility, diversity, opportunity and inclusion are valued.

Additional Resources

• For resources related to equity, diversity, and inclusion, please see the UBC Equity & Inclusion Office.
• For resources related to accessibility, please see the UBC Centre for Accessibility.
• For resources related to advocacy, please see the AMS Advocacy & Ombudsperson.

Everyone's safety and wellbeing are our top priority, and it's important that we all feel safe and comfortable while engaging in in-person course activities together.

Do not attend in-person course activities if you are ill and/or experiencing any symptoms (e.g., fever, coughing, sneezing, etc.) that put others at risk. Stay home and take the time you need to rest and recover. Please see the Absences/Missing Assignments Policy for information on what to do if you are unable to attend in-person course activities due to illness.

While there is no longer a general requirement to wear a face covering (mask) on UBC premises, please consider doing so to protect yourself and others, especially if you are well enough to attend in-person course activities but still experiencing minor symptoms that may put others at risk.

Students who are registered with the Centre for Accessibility must book their exams for CPSC 110 through the CFA exam portal in order to receive accommodations, such as extended time or a private space. Unfortunately the course team is not able to provide accommodations to students who are not registered with the CFA, or to students who do not register for their exams through the CFA exam portal before the specified deadline. Please note that students do not need to send their accommodation letters to the course team, as we can access a copy in the CFA exam portal.

Attendance is mandatory and all material from the course is examinable. We are not able to provide extensions (a later due date/deadline) for any assignments in the course under any circumstances.

Please note that an exam scheduled outside of class time that conflicts with a regularly scheduled lecture or lab is not considered a conflicting responsibility. When an exam outside of class time conflicts with a regularly scheduled lecture or lab, it is the course with the exam's responsibility to provide scheduling accommodations. Students are responsible for contacting the instructor or Course Coordinator for that course well in advance of the exam to request accommodation.

If you miss a lab, problem set, or midterm, you may be able to receive an exemption and you should submit an academic concession form no later than 7 business days after the deadline of the missed assignment. Please note that the academic concession form will close for the term at 11:59 PM on December 16.

Receiving an exemption for a lab, problem set, or exam means that you will not receive 0 for missing that assignment. Exemptions are recorded as "EX" in Canvas — this is our way of indicating that we need to omit that grade when calculating final grades at the end of the term. Note that receiving an exemption does not excuse you from needing to know the course material that you missed — it is your responsibility to catch up on any course material that you miss.

If you do not reqest academic concession for a missed assignment in accordance with this Policy or UBC's Policy on academic concession, you will receive 0 for that assignment. As stated in the Assignments and Grading section, your lowest lab grade and your lowest problem set grade will be dropped at the end of term, in addition to any exemptions granted by the course team.

If you miss a lecture:

• Work through the lecture activities for practice while reviewing the lecture recording. Post on the Piazza discussion forum and/or attend office hours if you need additional support.
• We are not able to provide exemptions for missed lecture participation questions, but we automatically drop 1 week (2 classes) of students' lecture grades to allow for the occasional missed lecture or technical issue.

If you miss a lab:

• Submit an academic concession form no later than 7 days after the lab section you missed. Work through the lab for practice and post on the Piazza discussion forum and/or attend office hours if you need additional support.
• Students are only permitted to attend their registered lab section and cannot attend a different lab section to complete missed lab work.
• You will receive a zero on your TA assessment for that week. If your academic concession is accepted, then you will also be marked exempt from the TA assessment and your problem set grade will be your auto-grader score.

If you miss a problem set:

• Submit an academic concession form no later than 7 days after the problem set you missed. Work through the problem set for practice aand post on the Piazza discussion forum and/or attend office hours if you need additional support.
• Do not email your problem set to the course team if you miss the deadline. Students are responsible for ensuring that they have enough time to resolve errors and submit their work before the cooldown period and deadline. We do not accept any problem set submissions via email under any circumstances.

If you miss a midterm:

• Submit an academic concession form no later than 7 days after the midterm you missed. Work through the midterm questions for practice and post on the Piazza discussion forum and/or attend office hours if you need additional support. Try to do this before reviewing the solutions if possible, but make sure that you do review the solutions at some point.

If you miss the final exam:

• Students who miss a final exam must apply for deferred standing through their faculty's academic advising office no later than 48 hours after the final exam they missed. Please see the Standing Deferred and Supplemental exams page for more information.
• Note that students who do not complete sufficient labs, problem sets, and midterms during the term or who are otherwise not considered to be in good academic standing may not qualify for deferred standing.

If you believe one of your lab or problem set grades is incorrect, you may be able to receive a regrade and you should submit a regrade request form no later than 7 business days after grades have been released on Canvas for that assignment. Do not submit a regrade request form before final grades for the assignment are released on Canvas. Regrade requests for exams must be submitted through Gradescope. We will share share detailed instructions about how to do this on Piazza after the first midterm. We do not accept regrade requests for lecture questions or lecture starters. Please note that the regrade request form will close for the term at 11:59 PM on Wednesday, December 17.

You must specify which parts of your solution you believe were graded incorrectly, explaining why your answer should be marked correctly with reference to the rubric and the posted solution, if available. Regrade requests that either question the rubric or do not explain why the answer should be considered correct according to the rubric will not be considered. Note that we reserve the right to regrade the entirety of any assignment submitted. When requesting a regrade, your old grade will be discarded and your new grade could be higher or lower. Any regrade request that does not comply with this Policy will be denied without written reply.

Examples of unacceptable explanations are:

• I disagree that this is a failing assignment.
• The rubric puts too much weight on this.
• I do not understand why my answer is incorrect.

Examples of good explanations are:

• Item 3 of the rubric says that the signature should be Number -> Image, which is what my answer has.
• Item 5 of the rubric asks whether the template is apparent. I have preserved the template structure as required in my function definition.

CPSC 110 follows the CS Department's wait list Policy. Course instructors and staff in the Computer Science Department do not have the ability to register students in courses that are full or restricted. Please do not contact instructors, Course Coordinators, or CS Advising to ask about your wait list position or bypassing the wait list.

UBC provides resources to support student learning and to maintain healthy lifestyles but recognizes that sometimes crises arise and so there are additional resources to access including those for survivors of sexual violence. UBC values respect for the person and ideas of all members of the academic community. Harassment and discrimination are not tolerated nor is suppression of academic freedom. UBC provides appropriate accommodation for students with disabilities and for religious and cultural observances. UBC values academic honesty and students are expected to acknowledge the ideas generated by others and to uphold the highest academic standards in all of their actions. Details of the policies and how to access support are available here.

Lecture topics are shown on the schedule and each lecture has a corresponding page in the Lecture Index. You should check these pages daily as they contain information on how to prepare for lecture, how to participate during lecture, and what to review after lecture.

Prior to lecture you will be expected to work through one or more edX numbered videos. Most lectures will begin with iClicker Cloud questions based on the pre-work you did on edX. There may also be additional iClicker Cloud questions throughout lecture, based on the work we are doing at that time. Answering these questions correctly during lecture is what constitutes your lecture grade in the course.

During lecture, there will be a mix of instruction and you working on short programming exercises that you submit to the auto-grader through SPD handin. While submitting the exercises during lecture doesn't contribute to your lecture grade, you will receive real-time feedback from the auto-grader and working through them with the instructor during lecture is essential to your learning. We will release the solutions for the lecture problems at 10:00 PM on the day of each lecture, to encourage you to work through the problems yourselves before reviewing the solutions.

We will provide recordings of the online lecture sections to all students in the course for review purposes. Please note that these lecture recordings are a supplement, rather than an alternative to attending and participating in your lecture section.

Lab topics are shown on the schedule and each lab has a corresponding page in the Labs section of edX. You must go to the specific lab section that you are registered in and you must arrive at your lab on time. If you do not attend your lab on time and participate actively and respectfully throughout the entire 2 hours and 50 minutes, you will lose all or part of your lab grade that week.

Labs involve the design of one or more programs graded by the auto-grader, as well as a check-off question asked by your TA that you must answer before leaving the session. Check-off questions are intended to test your understanding of the programs you designed. The lab problems are designed to be completed during your scheduled lab time, however, on the rare occasion that you do not finish them during your scheduled lab time, you will have until 6 hours after the scheduled end time of your lab section to finish and submit your lab work (e.g., if your lab section ends at 3pm on Tuesdays, you will have until 9pm that same Tuesday to finish and submit your lab work).

Do not work on the lab problems prior to your scheduled lab time. Working on the lab problems during lab is necessary and valuable to your learning. If you come to your lab with some or all of the lab problems completed ahead of time, your TA will ask you to start over.

Your grade for each lab is calculated using your auto-grader score and the score that your TA gives you out of three for attendance, behaviour, and check-off. The grading scheme is as follows:

• If you get 3/3 for your TA score, your lab grade will be your auto-grader score
• If you get 2/3 for your TA score, your lab grade will be capped at 80%
• If you get 1/3 for your TA score, your lab grade will be capped at 60%
• If you get 0/3 for your TA score, your lab grade will be 0

Problem set deadlines are shown on the schedule, and each problem set can be found on the Problem Sets page. You should check this page regularly for problem set starter files, solutions, and feedback. You should also review the Academic Integrity Policy before starting your first problem set.

Problem sets involve the design of one or more programs graded by the auto-grader, as well as an assessment with your TA that will take place during the next week's lab. Problem set assessment questions are intended to test your understanding of the programs you designed. Some weeks you will have a shorter TA assessment and some weeks you will have a longer TA assessment, however, you will not know which assessment you will have ahead of your scheduled lab time.

Your grade for each problem set is calculated using your auto-grader score and your TA assessment score. Over the course of the term, your TA assessment score will contribute to approximately 1/3 of your overall problem set grade. The grading scheme is as follows:

• If you have the short TA assessment, your problem set grade is 75% auto-grader score and 25% TA assessment score
• If you have the long TA assessment, your problem set grade is 50% auto-grader score and 50% TA assessment score

The Piazza discussion forum is the only place you are permitted to ask questions about problem sets. Questions can only be about the problem statement. Questions that contain information about how you are solving the problem or what you understand about the problem will be deleted. An instructor will answer questions that appear to identify mistakes in the problem sets, but to the greatest degree possible you are expected to work through the problem sets yourselves. Getting too much help on problem sets leads to poor performance on exams, where that help is not available.

Midterms are shown on the schedule and the final exam is scheduled during the final exam period by the university. Exams will be invigilated in-person in large rooms on campus to ensure space between students for social distancing and to discourage academic misconduct. You will be required to bring a computer to your exam room to write your exams. We will post more detailed information on Piazza in advance of the first midterm.

Midterm 1: Thursday, October 2 from 6:00-8:00 PM

• Will cover all material up to and including the ref module (all material means videos, lecture, problem sets, labs, lecture notes, etc.).
• Deadline to submit Midterm 1 conflict form: 11:59 PM on Thursday, September 18.

Midterm 2: Tuesday, November 4 from 6:00-8:00 PM

• Will cover all material up to and including the genrec module (all material means videos, lecture, problem sets, labs, lecture notes, etc.).
• Deadline to submit Midterm 2 conflict form: 11:59 PM on Tuesday, October 21.

Final Exam: December 9-20, date and time TBA

• Will cover all material in the course (all material means videos, lecture, problem sets, labs, lecture notes, etc.) with the exception of the HtDW module.