# Homework policy

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/homework-policy/2342>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** proposal, homework\
**Created:** [February 27, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/homework-policy/2342 "2017-02-27T16:13:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/homework-policy/2342/22 "2020-09-30T15:45:06Z")

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I’ve made your old post a wiki, Tamas, but I agree with @ctkelley — guidance to _students_ is more a question for the course professors/TAs. I don’t know that our guidance to students needs to be any different from [Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757). The one exception in my mind would be that I’d like to encourage students to be honest up-front that it’s a homework problem.

That said:

> [@Tamas\_Papp](#):
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> Suspiciously homework-looking problems show up here on a more or less daily basis, and community members seem unsure how to deal with them.

The bigger question in my mind is how we suggest (or if we need to have explicit suggestions for) our existing members respond to obvious homework prompts — either explicitly labeled or not. Personally I like SO’s suggestions on this front: [How do I ask and answer homework questions? - Meta Stack Overflow](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/334823/176071).

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