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From: ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <603@plx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 19:03:05 EST
Article-I.D.: plx.603
Posted: Thu Apr 16 19:03:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 10:26:02 EST
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Organization: Plexus Computers, San Jose, CA.
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Summary: Make up your own assignments

In article <6487@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> 
> >  the course before the 12th week if they were not doing as well as 
> >  they wanted to. They could then take the course again, having some
> >  of the programs already written!!
> 

Why do professors assign the *SAME* problems every semester anay?

When I was taking Pascal & Fortran, I made a deal with the instructor.
I could write whatever programs I wanted to as long as I included the
"Topic" for that assignment (i.e. using linked-lists).

This solves *THREE* problems. (1) Plagiarism is minimized.  (2) Creativity
is encouraged and  (3) The student begins to *APPLY* the concepts he has
learned!

Usually, I wrote programs for use in Physics Labs (saved me *LOTS* of
time formatting and tabulating and calculating.)  By the end of the 
semester, I had a "toolkit" for preparing my homework. 

-ed-