Fundamentally, the honor code is about giving credit to others where credit is due, which allows for a more accurate assessment of your knowledge (because you aren’t taking credit for yourself where it’s not due) and it better ensures community trust and the societal benefits that stem from that trust.

For blog posts you might use ideas, facts, and even quoted text, from other sources. Cite relevant sources, including papers and “personal communications” with other students. I expect sources to be appropriately cited using APA style.

For your project, you may obtain help from others, but as with blog posts, for such help you must credit the person through a citation or through other acknowledgements on your poster.

The honor code (little h) is not about following rules per se (though Honor Codes, big H, do insist on some of that) — the honor code is about building and strengthening community and identifying yourself and your roles in that community. honor code, little h, is one of the noblest things about academia.

I may ask you to sign statements indicating that you have acknowledged and cited your sources to the best of your ability. I used to think that having students sign such statements was patronizing and I didn’t do it, but I am persuaded by findings like those reported here (http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html), that sometimes humans need reminding.

See the IEEE Code of Conduct, important for your chosen field.

My code as an CS (and engineering) educator is specified, in part, by the ABET criteria for desired competencies of CS (and engineering) graduates.