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Cheating Detector from Georgia Tech
brightboy writes "According to this Yahoo! News article, Georgia Tech has developed and implemented a "cheating detector"; that is, a program which compares students' coding assignments to each other and detects exact matches. This was used for two undergraduate classes: "Introduction to Computing" (required for any student in the College of Computing) and "Object Oriented Programming" (required for Computer Science majors)." Cuz
remember programmers: in the real world you are fired if you consult
with a co-worker ;)
I have to wonder how many false positives this would generate for programs where the implementation is either trivial or obvious.
"Class, I'd like you all to implement a splay tree in a unique and novel way."
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Actually, if you had read the article the software was created in 1993. So, no, it's not new. I am not convinced these tools work all the time. Let me get his straight, some Professors making too much money now have a program to their work for them? I am in the wrong line of work. IANAL, but I doubt a Univeristy would win if a student sued over this unless all results are checked by a human. You knwo there is going to be some Profs that don't perform a human check and inocents will get blamed for something they didn't do.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
You idiot.