Any writing you do must cite any sources you used for ideas, and must indicate specifically any exact quotation, and must have a specific citation immediately following or preceding any non-exact quotation that is a restatement of another source. Any failure to do these things is plagiarism.
In general, I expect this course to be rather generous in its grading for a computer science major course. However, the minimum penalty for any cheating will be an E for the course (not just the assignment in question!), and the maximum penalty is expulsion from the University.
``You can do absolutely anything here, except for murder and plagiarism. And even in that case, they're often willing to punish first-time offenders lightly--if it's only murder.''--Direct quote of speaker at Prof. Sloan's freshman orientation in fall of 19-mumble-mumble.