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Article #1224Re: Cheating on Programs (was Re: optical diff (was Re: Emacs))
From: str... Joshua Osborne
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 11:34
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 11:34
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In article <22...@unix.cis.pitt.edu> dt...@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>Oh, God. Now it's going to be *impossible* to separate the lowlife scum from
>the real students...
>
>FORTRAN was great. Any indentation at all by the students would show up cases
>of cheating in an instant. [...]
Why not just run the students programs thru a cb, or indent, or whatever
the Pascal version is? In fact you could even write a version that strips
out comments, renames the variables, and does the compare itself (why think
when you can let the computer do it?)
--
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Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
"The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!stripes From: str...@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Cheating on Programs (was Re: optical diff (was Re: Emacs)) Message-ID: <1990Feb17.113446.17689@eng.umd.edu> Date: 17 Feb 90 11:34:46 GMT References: <1990Feb2.080816.9889@cs.rochester.edu> <1990Feb5.200603.14729@axion.bt.co.uk> <22138@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: ne...@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 16 Posted: Sat Feb 17 12:34:46 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit