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Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
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Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 01:31:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 15 01:31:56 1987
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From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards)
>  What is plagarized work? It seems that scientist plagarize all the 
>  time. They use tools, computers and lab devices (that other people
>  made and invented), to extend the knowledge of a particular discipline. 
>  Is just a direct copy plagarism or are stolen ideas just as good. 

Plagarism is using someone else's work and not documenting the fact as
I clearly said in the original article and you conveniently left out
to make your point.

Besides, you're not a scientist, you're a student (or the hypothetical
cheater is.) When you become a scientist you can use other's work like
that to extend the field. You are not extending the field by writing a
bubble sort for an intro programming class so copying it out of the
ACM Algorithms is cheating.

Do you understand the difference between learning a field and extending
it? Good.

My point was solid, if you want to do your homework like a scientist
does his/her research then you will give full credit, in writing, to
all ideas which are not your own. As I said before, anything less
is cheating (for a student or a scientist.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University