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Subject: Re: Cheating on Programming Assignments
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Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 12:30:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 22 12:30:35 1987
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Once when I was teaching a course I noticed a few assignments had the
same, rather clever (for the level of the course), algorithm and data
structure to solve a problem. I sez to myself, oh boy, one kid got it
working and then the rest just got it.

I showed it to my teaching asst to see what he thought about the (to
me obvious) possibility of collusion here. I was relieved when he
pointed out that this is what I had written on the board in answer to
a question from one of the students one day.  The few using this
algorithm were probably the only students that were listening and
capable of seeing how my scribble cracked the nut of the problem.
Obviously I had forgotten that.

Yeah, I knew the job was dangerous when I took it...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University