Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!springs.cis.ufl.edu!wdn From: wdn@springs.cis.ufl.edu (William Norris) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Homework problems? Summary: cheating? Keywords: cheating Message-ID: <22697@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 17 Mar 90 23:20:44 GMT References: <88200005@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <1413@oravax.UUCP> <1420@oravax.UUCP> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: wdn@beach.cis.ufl.edu (William Dean Norris II) Followup-To: comp.theory Distribution: usa Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 39 In article <1420@oravax.UUCP> harper@oravax.UUCP (Douglas Harper) writes: >In article , moss@ibis.cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) writes: >> Should we establish any principle of use of this news group concerning >> requests for help to answer course homework problems? ... >> -- >> J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor >> Department of Computer and Information Science >> University of Massachusetts > >... On the one hand, >someone who is willing to cheat with open eyes is going to be willing >to lie about intent on the net. But I guess that sort of person can >always find the way to a library to look for the answer in another ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^^ >book, or to a backdoor "tutor". > >-- >Douglas Harper oravax!harper@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu >"'...Lest one good custom should corrupt the world...'" -- Tennyson Is looking for simular texts in a library considered cheating at Cornell? If you can find another text which looks at a homework problem in a different light to give you more insight and perhaps guide you to a better solution then why not. Looking for direction in a library doesn't consitute cheating in my code of ethics. BTW - I would *never* post a homework problem to the net. William Dean Norris II People always say "I know what University of Florida I like" when they mean "I like what I know". wdn@beach.cis.ufl.edu - G. Artman -- William Dean Norris II People always say "I know what University of Florida I like" when they mean "I like what I know". wdn@beach.cis.ufl.edu - G. Artman