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From: toddb@bacchus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 11:40:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 11:40:06 1987
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In article <248@rruxa.UUCP> gwl@rruxa.UUCP writes:
[concerning students cheating on programming assignments]
> ...
>          I have thought of a possible aid in solving this problem ...
>It would be very simple to require them to not only hand in a program
>listing with supporting output, but to also require them to hand in the
>source on a floppy disk so that I may actually subject them to my own
>test cases.

Considering that these students may someday have to deliver software
to a customer in the same way, it seems not only realistic and expedient,
but almost urgent.  Students MUST understand development problems
and portablility.  And this is simple portablility: from one pc clone
to another (identical) one.

I would require them to turn in the source language input which you
can compile/interpret on your own machine.  You provide them only with
a sample test case, but they should be aware that any input with
the same flavor should be accepted by their program.
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