Re: copying code

Article View: alt.folklore.computers

Article #1603

Back to alt.folklore.computers Previous Next

#1603

From: i... Ian Moor
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 18:16

22 lines
1613 bytes

Last term we found several copies of the same program handed in for a
first year exercise, the originator had mistyped the word `that' as `taht' in
a comment. One this was spotted we used find and grep to locate all copies.
During this search we found copies of sample solutions produced in previous
years, complete with names of the teaching staff in comments, as these 
exercises were not set I left them alone, but hoped the guy would come and
ask for increased disk quota -- `Just remove those stolen files and you'll
 have enough space'

The most blatant case of copying I have seen was in a written paper, halfway
through the answer there was a huge switch in sense. I dug out another
script and discovered that the copying student had tirned over two pages at
once without noticing and just carried on writing!

Ian W Moor
  ARPA: i...@doc.ic.ac.uk
  JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc
           
 Department of Computing,          Thou shalt not make a machine
 Imperial College.                 in the likeness of a human mind --
 180 Queensgate                     Butler.
 London SW7 UK.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1636@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!doc.ic.ac.uk!iwm

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!doc.ic.ac.uk!iwm
From: i...@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: copying code
Message-ID: <1636@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Feb 90 18:16:41 GMT
Sender: i...@doc.ic.ac.uk
Reply-To: i...@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
Lines: 22
Posted: Mon Feb 26 19:16:41 1990
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit