[CSC 415] Coding Principles

[Andrew J. Pounds]

I've gotten a lot of questions in the last 48 hours about your pendulum 
code and about how much code you can use from Game of Drones.  Please 
understand, the intent of the Pendulum was that it was your individual 
project where you could really demonstrate your coding abilities.

I asked all of you last semester and again at the beginning of this 
semester to write your own functions and libraries for common 
operations.  Alex took me up on this early. During the process of 
building Game of Drones many of you started to see the incredible ease 
and power with which you could code if you had these little functions 
pre-built (thanks to Alex).  Now it appears that several of you have 
just absorbed Alex's function libraries into your pendulum codes.   
While I did not specifically forbid this, when I run your code through 
my  plagiarism checker it will show a very high correlation and I will 
be taking note if there is significant overlap outside of these functions.

If you think you are going to get stung when I check your code for 
plagiarism, you might want to talk to me before making those final commits.



-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj

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