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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <826@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 00:01:43 EST
Article-I.D.: xanth.826
Posted: Mon Apr 13 00:01:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 17:45:35 EST
References: <248@rruxa.UUCP> <403@bacchus.MIT.EDU> <139@utecfb.Toronto.Edu>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Distribution: world
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: autotest semantic comparison
Summary: gimme!

In article <139@utecfb.Toronto.Edu> larry@utecfb.UUCP (Larry Philps) writes:
->I addition, I just found out a few days ago, a grad student here wrote
->a program which parses Turing programs to an intermediate form then
->compares them.  The result from 0 (different) to 1 (identical) is
->completely independent of variable names, program structure, and
->organization.  This is now being run to compare all submitted programs.
->If the result of a comparison is higher than about .85 (I think) then
->the programs are virtually the same.
->-- 
->Larry Philps	Engineering Computing Facility	University of Toronto
->NEW PATH:   larry@ecf.toronto.edu

Need it be mentioned, every computer science teacher in the known universe
wants a copy of the source and documentation to this, preferably yesterday!

Kent.  ;-) 

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