So…I have been wrongfully accused of cheating on a CS assignment.

Apparently, myself and a fellow TO student have been slammed with “excessive collaboration”, which I think is ridiculous.

Three areas of our code was flagged: two of those areas were similar to other people’s code (in addition to one another), but apparently they were willing to overlook that. The third similarity between our programs was two for loops intended to print a matrix. However, this was not part of the program. This was a test, to see if the matrix we made would print properly. So, rather than entering print commands for each entry, we put in loops to print it in one go.

Apparently that shit don’t fly.

We never once exchanged code. She never saw my code (I actually worked on the program at a separate time from her). The only work we did together was preliminary work. We decided what the best approach was, and we talked about the steps that we should take to complete it. We then programmed to that blueprint.

And…apparently…that is cheating…even though it says in CS regulations that discussing the problem in advance is entirely acceptable.

This is not what I needed this close to the end of term.