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From: ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
Message-ID: <551@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 08:55:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 22 08:55:38 1987
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Reply-To: ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff)
Organization: DCSS, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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At McMaster cheating is considered as Academic Dishonesty and is a case of
plagiarism, i.e., passing someone else's work as your own without attribution.

Our students are told that discussion between any number of students is NOT
discouraged, provided that students leave such a meeting WITHOUT anything
written down.  Working from memory is akin to copying the IBM BIOS purely
from external specifications!  Closer collaboration is acceptable provided that
ALL students have their name on all material handed in.

We are advised not to repeat the same assignment two years' running!

Nick Solntseff