Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!wucs1!wucs2!sw1e!pyuxww!rruxa!gwl From: gwl@rruxa.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Cheating on Programming Assignments Message-ID: <250@rruxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 09:41:41 EST Article-I.D.: rruxa.250 Posted: Mon Apr 6 09:41:41 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 05:59:00 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 42 In <843@fmsrl7.UUCP> wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP writes: >Not that I want to start a major debate but what is the real problem >with students collaborating on programming assignments? In the real >world, how many professional programmers are expected to develop code >without talking to another programmer? (Just look at usenet traffic.) >The exchange of ideas between students fosters a feeling of working >with co-workers, not competing with them (as opposed to "curving" exam >scores). > First, the project was not designed to be worked on by a group, but by an individual. The problem was far too simple to require a group effort. But that is not the point! As was pointed out in an earlier posting, the purpose was to teach the basic programming skills which must be learned on an individual basis before they may be applied on a grander scale. Also, if in the "real world" an individual were to either try to fake a program or rape the work of others and pass it off as his or her own the consequences would be a bit graver than receiving a zero grade. Chances are this person would be fired and possibly brought up on charges. -- George W. Leach Bell Communications Research New Jersey Institute of Technology 444 Hoes Lane 4A-1129 Computer & Information Sciences Dept. Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 Newark, New Jersey 07102 (201) 699-8639 UUCP: ..!bcore!{indra | yogi | njitcis}!reggie ARPA: reggie%njit-eies.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere Dr. Seuss "One fish two fish red fish blue fish"