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Article #1225Re: Cheating on Programs (was Re: optical diff (was Re: Emacs))
From: m... Michael Sinz - CATS
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1990 17:09
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1990 17:09
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In article <1990Feb17.1...@eng.umd.edu> str...@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) writes: >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?) Well, just compile the thing. If it is a p-code Pascal compiler, the code should result the the exact same p-code, even though the variables and comments and indenting style is different. /----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | /// Michael Sinz -- CATS/Amiga Software Engineer | | /// PHONE 215-431-9422 UUCP ( uunet | rutgers ) !cbmvax!mks | | /// | |\\\/// "I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes. | | \XX/ Just then, he vanished. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!mks From: m...@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Cheating on Programs (was Re: optical diff (was Re: Emacs)) Message-ID: <9713@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 18 Feb 90 17:09:17 GMT References: <1990Feb2.080816.9889@cs.rochester.edu> <1990Feb5.200603.14729@axion.bt.co.uk> <22138@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1990Feb17.113446.17689@eng.umd.edu> Reply-To: m...@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 Posted: Sun Feb 18 18:09:17 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit