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From: subramn@cs.utexas.edu (K. R. Subramanian)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: The Bezier controversy...
Keywords: homework, dishonesty...
Message-ID: <713@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 90 04:39:40 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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There seems to be objections to people asking for software or suggestions on the 
grounds of academic dishonesty. The advantages of communication of ideas and 
suggestions between different researchers and programmers over the network 
easily outweigh the disadvantages. 

Even if the said person was given the source code he/she still has the responsibility
of getting it to work and tailor make it to his/her homework. In general, if
there is some debugging to be done in this process, he/she will probably 
end up going through the entire program and in the process get some level of
understanding of how it works.  Isnt that the purpose of homeworks??

In my experience, I have found its a lot easier to write your own code to do
small pieces of code writing.  The time spent in staring at the other person's 
code, getting used to his/her style and sophistication  in programming is not
very small.

K.R.Subramanian
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Tx - 78712.