Sources Citations and AI Use

Sources, Citations, and AI Use

The Module Four Assignment Guidelines and Rubric includes current guidance for using generative AI. Follow that guidance and your instructor's directions.

Start With Course Sources

The strongest sources for this assignment are:

• Module Four Assignment Guidelines and Rubric
• Higher/Lower Game Sample Output
• Module Four course resources
• The course zyBook
• Repository SRS, SDD, READMEs, and Wiki

These sources are aligned with the concepts and scope expected in IT 140.

Outside Sources

If you use an outside source to understand a concept or tool, keep track of it while you work. Examples include documentation about Git, GitHub, VS Code, pseudocode conventions, or Python.

Use outside sources to learn the concept and then create your own graded design.

Generative AI

If you use a generative AI tool, follow the current assignment AI-use guidelines in D2L Brightspace. The assignment guidance requires students who use generative AI to acknowledge that use and follow the provided citation guidance.

You are responsible for making sure your use of AI is permitted for the task and that the final graded work represents your own understanding.

A useful way to use AI without giving away the learning task is to ask for explanations, checks, or debugging help rather than a completed assignment solution. For example, you can ask how loop stopping conditions work or how indentation represents nested logic, then apply that explanation yourself.

References in the Pseudocode and Optional Python Practice

The starter .pseudo and optional .py files include References areas. If you use outside or AI-supported sources while completing work, follow the current course citation guidance. Remove unused placeholders rather than leaving TODO: reference text in a submitted file.

The graded submission requirements remain whatever the current Guidelines and Rubric specifies.