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Cheating Detector from Georgia Tech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-pretty-amusing dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Cheating detector written in C... by 11thangel · · Score: 1, Troll

    And someone forgot that "=" is the variable set operator, not the comparison operator, which is "==", so suddenly the cheating detector gave a lot of people F's...

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  2. In other news. by Kenja · · Score: 0, Troll

    Geeks all over the world discover the diff utility and wonder what the hell the Georga Tech monkeys are so worked up about.

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  3. blergh by fintler · · Score: 0, Troll

    yet another reason the switch to MIS...heh

  4. I can make one of those by nomadic · · Score: 0, Troll

    ln -s cheatingdetector /usr/bin/diff

    1. Re:I can make one of those by nomadic · · Score: 0, Troll

      yeah, yeah, it's been a few months since I linked something, so sue me.

  5. Re:I remember when my school did this... by jamesdood · · Score: 1, Troll

    Seems to me that with implementation of these programs M$ is going to lose a lot of their job candidates!!

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  6. I know what program they used! by Adrian+Voinea · · Score: 0, Troll

    [..] that is, a program which compares students' coding assignments to each other and detects exact matches. [...]

    Let me guess... Is this what they used ? ;))