Timeliness

All assignments are due at the end of the day (11:59pm Eastern Time) on the day listed in the schedule. You will have one “free” late token to use for any assignment (except exams) as needed throughout the course. The token gets you a 24 hour extension on the assignment deadline. These are for any cases where Institute-approved absences do not apply, and no reason must be given to use them. After the “free” late token is used up, any late assignments will receive a 10% per day penalty. Assignments turned in one week or later past the due date will not be graded and given a 0. You do not need to notify the course staff to use late tokens -- they will be automatically applied. Once you use them, you cannot switch them later in the course, so plan wisely. If you do not used your late token at the end of the semester, you will receive 5% extra credit on the final exam.

Regrade Policy

You can request a re-grade of an assignment within seven days of releasing the grade by sending an email to the course staff. The request should contain a written explanation of why you think that the grade is incorrect. We will look over your work again upon request.

If there is an error, we will of course correct it. However, do not ask for a regrade or a boost simply because you do not like your grade. If your request is based on a rationale of "what's the harm" or "it's worth a try," save your energy. You get the grade that you earn in this class -- no more and no less. Baseless requests for regrades devalue all of your classmates' hard work and waste everyone's time.

Letter Grades

For numerical grade x, we will use the following standard letter grade correspondence:

	A	A-
	x ≥ 93	90 ≤ x < 93
B+	B	B-
87 ≤ x < 90	83 ≤ x < 87	80 ≤ x < 83
C+	C	C-
77 ≤ x < 80	73 ≤ x < 77	70 ≤ x < 73
D+	D
67 ≤ x < 70	63 ≤ x < 67
	F
	x < 63

Office of Accessibility Services

Your success in this class is important to me. We all need accommodations because we all learn differently. If there are aspects of this course that prevent you from learning or exclude you, let me know as soon as possible. Together we'll develop strategies to meet both your needs and the requirements of the course.

I encourage you to visit the Office of Accessibility Services to determine how you could improve your learning as well. If you need official accommodations, you have a right to have these met. Students must renew their accommodation letter every semester they attend classes. Contact the Office of Accessibility Services for more information at (404) 727-9877 or email at accessibility@emory.edu. Additional information is available at the Department of Accessibility website.

Student Support Services

In your time at Emory, you may find yourself in need of support. Here you will find some resources to support you both as a student and as a person.

Academic Honesty

Emory aims to cultivate a community based on trust, academic integrity, and honor. Students are expected to act according to the highest ethical standards. For information on Emory’s Honor Code, please visit here.

Any student suspected of cheating or plagiarizing on a quiz, exam, or assignment will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct, who will investigate the incident and identify the appropriate penalty for violations.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, you are expected to complete assignments on your own. It is appropriate to discuss your ideas with others to gain feedback and help with sticky problems. It is not appropriate to find an existing solution online or from your friends, modify them, and submit as your own work. If in doubt, confer with your instructor. It is much easier to ask about these things than handle the consequences of a poor decision.

Any code and writeup that is found to be similar is grounds for an honor code investigation. This includes similarities with any submissions from current or past semesters, as well as suspicions of plagiarism from online resources.

Every program assignment must have the following comment included at the top of the file.

/* THIS CODE IS MY OWN WORK, IT WAS WRITTEN WITHOUT CONSULTING CODE WRITTEN BY OTHER STUDENTS OR COPIED FROM ONLINE RESOURCES. _Your_Name_Here_ */

An assignment will not be considered turned in without the comment.

Use of AI

AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, etc.) can be useful for learning programming concepts, debugging, and practicing problem-solving. In this course, the goal is for you to develop the ability to read, write, trace, debug, and explain Java code independently.

You may use AI tools to:

• Ask for explanations of Java concepts, syntax, errors, or compiler messages.
• Request examples that are not copied into your assignment.
• Brainstorm approaches to a problem before writing your own solution.
• Get hints for debugging after attempting the problem yourself.
• Study for quizzes and exams.

You may not:

• Submit code written wholly or in part by an AI tool as your own work.
• Ask an AI tool to complete an assignment, lab, homework, or project for you.
• Copy AI-generated code, comments, variable names, or test cases into a submission.
• Use AI tools during quizzes, exams, or other assessments designated as closed-resource.

If you use an AI tool while working on an assignment, include a brief note at the beginning of your submission, after your honor code statement:
/*AI Use Statement: I used [tool name] to [e.g., explain a compiler error / review my approach / suggest debugging steps]. I wrote and tested all submitted code myself.*/
If you did not use AI, write:
/*AI Use Statement: No AI tools were used.*/

You should be prepared to explain how your program works, trace your code on a small example, and modify or extend your solution during class, office hours, or a follow-up discussion. Inability to explain or modify submitted work may be treated as evidence that the submission is not your own. Violations of this policy will be handled according to the course's Academic Honest policy (see above).

The goal of this policy is to encourage you to use AI responsibly -- to augment your own learning rather than circumvent it.