Our CS department had harsh penalties for copying code. You would be banned from CS classes for 1 year. It bred a culture of zero collaboration. Our Computer En

Our CS department had harsh penalties for copying code. You would be banned from CS classes for 1 year. It bred a culture of zero collaboration. Our Computer Engineering department was pro collaboration and rarely did anyone get accused of cheating. If it looked like someone else's solution, then you probably worked together on it. I even saw one student get caught copying and the professor asked the student if he understood the code. If so, then who cares. That student did not understand the code, so the professor told him to start over and gave him a deadline extension.