Helping With Programming Q's I am a mostly self taught programmer. I read books and make things in my spare time. I want to go back to school soon for a CS degree and one of the ways I stay sharp is to help with stuff that's within my ability on Stack Exchange or Reddit. For example things like "How to print the reverse of a string" or whatever. 

My question is that a lot of schools have policies against letting your work be used in someone else's assignment. As far as I'm concerned helping out on internet forums is just doing a public good but are there schools that see it differently? Could that come back to bite me when I'm enrolled somewhere? Should I hold off from answering questions until I'm through the educational system? Or is it a baseless concern?
Answering Questions from others on stack is one thing which is fine - it is outside your course.

Posting an assignment to get it solved for you or posting the solved assignment for others is not...

Students have long helped each other, by working through problems and applying the process etc but NOT by handing over a complete solution to a graded assignment - that is cheating and most institutions will be after both the cheat and the person helping them...