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From: shea@bnrmtv.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: looking for cheating detectors
Message-ID: <3666@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 88 03:16:11 GMT
References: <1403@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <2920@utastro.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA
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In article <2920@utastro.UUCP>, nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
> In article <1403@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, paco@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Francisco J Romero) writes:
> > ...about cheating...
> 
> What on earth are you teaching?  A class on re-inventing the wheel?  Perhaps
> your students would benefit from a course on how to "cheat" -- how to find
> and use code someone else has written and debugged.  That's what ALL
> professional programmers do if they can manage it.  The proof of a program
> is running it, and if they stole the program in its entirety, and it meets
> the program requirements entirely, then more power to them!  They'll have
> no trouble finding a job.

Oh, good.  If everybody teaches a course like that, in a few years we
won't have anybody who knows how to program; not that it'll matter, we
can always just lift code from old stuff. :-)  God forbid any of the
students want to get advanced degrees:  "Well, hey, this Knuth guy
knows his stuff, I'll just use this as my thesis."

Then again, maybe you were kidding?

Ray