Referencing Guide

Referencing is a way of acknowledging the sources that you use to complete your labs and assignments. You need to provide a reference whenever you draw on someone else's code, pseudocode or ideas. You also need to provide a reference whenever you use your own previously submitted work.

How to reference

You must clearly attribute the source of any code, pseudocode or ideas that you use/adapt in an accompanying comment. This comment must:

Be placed directly above where the code or pseudocode was used
Briefly describe its purpose
Contain the URL of the website from which the code or pseudocode was taken

Example:

// Gets a list of all prime numbers up to 'n'
List getPrimes(int n) {
    List res = ListNew();
    bool *prime = malloc((n + 1) * sizeof(bool));
    assert(prime != NULL);
    memset(prime, true, n + 1);
    // The following code was taken from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sieve-of-eratosthenes/
    // It uses the Sieve of Eratosthenes to generate prime numbers
    for (int p = 2; p * p <= n; p++) {
        if (prime[p] == true) {
            ListAppend(res, p);
            for (int i = p * p; i <= n; i += p) {
                prime[i] = false;
            }
        }
    }
    free(prime);
    return res;
}

Allowable sources

Course website

You are allowed to use or adapt any amount of provided code or pseudocode from the current iteration of the course. This includes lecture slides and code, tutorial questions and answers, and lab exercises and solutions.

External websites

You are allowed to use small amounts (< 10 lines) of general purpose code (not related to the assessment) obtained from external websites such as Stack Overflow.

Submitted code

You are allowed to use any amount of code that you submitted earlier in the course. You must still include a reference with a description and URL. You should use the URL of your submission from your submissions page.