You might commit an academic offence
You have assignments and tests in all of your courses.
It's due tomorrow! Panic!

Why not to commit an academic offence
You're going to cheat now and make up for it later?
HA!
If you don't have time now, will you have more time to work on the course when the final exam is looming?
Do the work now. The assignment is intended to teach you something. Make use of it.

How not to commit an academic offence
Obey the rules in your course.
Different courses have different assignments; different requirements; different rules about what must be your own work and what can be discussed with others.
Be scrupulous, and you needn't worry about being caught.

We will catch you
We have software.
We are smart.
We catch cheaters every year, every term, every class.
Most students convicted of academic offences are not career-cheaters. You may wander across the line between allowable and prohibited collaboration late at night, in a study room, under pressure.
Don't do it. We will catch you.

You are not helping your friend when you give them a copy of your assignment
They will get caught. They will get convicted of an academic offence. They won't learn the material.

You will also get prosecuted when you give your friend a copy of your assignment
In the typical case in which students (even with no previous offences) share code, the donor gets treated as severely as the recipient.

Don't ask your friend for their assignment if you want to stay friends
You are asking them to commit an academic offence. You are asking them to get caught, prosecuted, penalized.

Delete your illicit files
So you've crossed the line but you're going to do better next time?
Don't submit that file! It's not too late!
Delete your illicit files. If you understood what you did with your co-conspirator, you can do that assignment work again (eventually). But maybe you'll find out that you didn't understand everything after all. This is why you have to do the assignment yourself.

Besides, the penalty for an academic offence is worse than even a zero on that assignment.

Avoid an academic offence prosecution
Play it cool; stay in school. Your sports heroes have individually contacted us and requested that we tell you that they themselves don't commit academic offences and that they recommend that you follow their example in this as you already do in all other matters.