Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bk0h# From: bk0h#@andrew.cmu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 17:04:26 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.IUQ3pey00UhBhCI0dz Posted: Tue Mar 31 17:04:26 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Apr-87 01:36:05 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University Lines: 18 ReSent-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 87 19:13:53 est ReSent-From: postman#@andrew.cmu.edu ReSent-To: nntp-xmit#@andrew.cmu.edu Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 619 X-Trace: MS Version 3.22 on ibm032 host lawrence, by bk0h (619). To: outnews#ext.nn.comp.edu@andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <248@rruxa.UUCP> > 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. This may make it possible to judge programs based > upon feeding them the identical test data and evaluating the results. This approach was tried in one of my CS classes (I'm a student), and it worked very well. Every student had to hand in a disk with his source code (turbo pascal) on it, along with a listing of his code. The graders then compiled the code and ran test files through it. On large chunks of code this might take a long time though. The only problem I heard about was that soemone with a working program was told that it didn't work. He talked with the graders, who tried again, this time with the correct results, so apparently the grader just compiled incorrectly. You might try sending mail to Matt Mason (mason@c.cs.cmu.edu) to ask if he had any problems. (He was my professor). Brett