Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: looking for cheating detectors
Message-ID: <1880@looking.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 15:58:22 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Really people!  How many of you would suggest that a good practice for
math courses would be to assign a problem, and then have everybody look
up the answer in the literature?

(Actually, both CS and Math programs should deal with *how* to look up proofs
and algorithms in the literature, but that shouldn't be the thrust of the
course.)

Number theorists don't prove old theorems every day, either, and they look
up the proof if they need it, but I've never heard anybody suggest that
students not rework previously solved problems in class before.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473