Week 12 [Mon, Apr 7th] - Admin

Giving credit for reused work

Given below are how to give credit for things you reuse from elsewhere. These requirements are specific to this course i.e., not applicable outside the course (outside the course, you should follow the rules specified by your employer and the license of the reused work)

If you used a third party library:

• Individual project (iP): Mention in the README file (under the Acknowledgements section)
• Team project (tP):
  • Mention in the Developer Guide (under the Acknowledgements section)
  • Mention in Project Portfolio Page if the library has a significant relevance to the features you implemented.

If you reused code snippets found on the Internet e.g. from StackOverflow answers or
referred code in another software or
referred project code by current/past student:

• If you read the code to understand the approach and implemented it yourself, mention it as a comment
  Example:

  //Solution below inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/a/16252290
  {Your implementation of the reused solution here ...}
  
      
  
      
  
  
      
      
      
  
        
  
  
      
      

• If you copy-pasted code from elsewhere but modified it significantly, mention it as a comment
  Example:

  //Solution below adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/16252290
  {Your implementation of the reused solution here ...}
  
      
  
      
  
  
      
      
      
  
        
  
  
      
      

• If you copy-pasted a non-trivial code block (possibly with minor modifications renaming, layout changes, changes to comments, etc.), also mark the code block as reused code (using @@author tags with the -reused suffix)
  Format:

  //@@author {yourGithubUsername}-reused
  //{Info about the source...}
  
  {Reused code (possibly with minor modifications) here ...}
  
  //@@author
  
      
  
      
  
  
      
      
      
  
        
  
  
      
      

  Example of reusing a code snippet (with minor modifications):

  persons = getList()
  //@@author johndoe-reused
  //Reused from https://stackoverflow.com/a/34646172
  // with minor modifications
  Collections.sort(persons, new Comparator<CustomData>() {
      @Override
      public int compare(CustomData lhs, CustomData rhs) {
          return lhs.customInt > rhs.customInt ? -1 : 0;
      }
  });
  //@@author
  return persons;
  
      
  
      
  
  
      
      
      
  
        
  
  
      
      

Giving credit for reusing from course materials (e.g., course textbook, tutorials, instructional resources from se-education.org) is not required, although you are welcome to do so. Reason: Those materials were created by the teaching team for you to use/reuse.

Reuse within the team (e.g., reusing code written by a team member) need not be mentioned explicitly. However, you should factor in such reuse when you estimate effort contributed by each team member.

Reuse of documentation (e.g., reusing a UG/DG section) is no different from code reuse. Such reuse should be credited as well.

Citing the use of AI-generated/assisted work (e.g., using GitHub Copilot for project work):

• If the use of the tool was localized into a few places (e.g., used it to write a few methods/classes only), cite its use in comments near where you used it.
• If the use was more widespread (e.g., used it as an auto-complete tool during most of your coding), cite the usage (i.e., which tool, who used it, the extent of use) in the following location instead (i.e., no need to cite in code comments):
  • iP: in the README file
  • tP: in the DG, under the Acknowledgements section