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From: ln63szb@sdcc13.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <807@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 03:26:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  5 03:26:18 1987
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Reply-To: ln63szb@sdcc13.UUCP (Grobbins)
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At UCSD in the EECS department, some students cheat, they do it
regularly, they are seldom caught by TAs or professors, and they are
even less often forced to go through the university's judicial
process.  It is easier for most faculty members to give the student
a zero on an assignment, or just to ignore the problem.

Although many different methods of checking programming assignments
are used, one thing I've encountered in every programming course:
grades are based heavily on examinations.  

Exams never really reflect what was supposed to be learned by the
programming assignments, but they seem necessary as long as students
copy homework.  Of course, students who cheat on homework often also
cheat on exams....

Same at other schools?  

Grobbins.