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Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning
The Washington Post has an article today on a Georgia Tech student who almost flunked his intro to comp sci course for just discussing his homework with someone else. Note that no one including the faculty accused him of actually copying any code from anyone. However, the "honor code" at Georgia Tech "forbids its introductory computer science students from seeking any help from other students on their homework." The faculty recorded part of his violation on the forms as "He was trying to learn it." This is something that high school seniors might want to keep in mind when selecting which university to attend.
...it's for drinking, partying, having casual sex and possibly absusing some illegal substances.
It must be true, popular culture says so.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
You'd think they'd crack down on drinking, drugs, and cheating first. :P
:)
If schools ban learning, then I guess the "fun factor" is what College is all about.
Who turns someone in for something like this anyway?
What, me worry?
I would send the following mail:
To whom it may concern,
I would like to apologize for my behavior. It was wrong and immoral. I suppose, because of my youth, that I thought it would be justifiable to learn. I now see otherwise, and hope to discontinue this behavior for the rest of my career.
I thought that it might be a good dodge to spend some of my time in first year learning, and that it might be an investment towards my GPA for me to acquire knowledge from other human beings. Oh well, I guess we all learn our lessons of life somehow. I understand that in discussing in an academic forum setting is wrong and I promise that for the endurement of my University career, I will absolve any attempt at communicating with my peers, as it seems to only decrement my academic standpoint and tarnish the reputation of the University, as well as compromising the institution of Education on the whole.
I promise I will avoid learning for the rest of my college career and rely only on myself and my own experiences with the natural environment to do so. Furthermore, I resolve to lock myself in my room for the remainder of the semester in hopes that social interaction will not tempt me into deteriorating my Computer Studies goals. As well, I will avoid going to lectures and tutorials, as well as any open labs, since the professors and TAs may accidentally teach me something, in which case I will compromise the goals the University seems to have set forth.
Sincerely,
****
Glad to know open academic forums (What Universities are intended to be) are still just that.
Karma: Non-Heinous
Shouldn't this be:
"Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Larnin'"?
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
I think I only completed one "major" project by myself, and cheated/copied the rest of the way through. The assignments in most CS programs are bullshit and have no bearing in the business world.
For the bonehead award, Programming I was basically just Pascal on personal computers. Well, I had gotten into "trouble" for not commenting my source code. So, for my final program, I wrote it in Pascal, compiled, disassembled, rewrote the assembler code to Pascal inline assembly statements, and lined up the original Pascal as the assembly inline comments. My prof wasn't amused.
But, on the other end, I took another programming course which was supposed to be COBOL, c, and FORTRAN. The first day, the prof said that we will not need our FORTRAN book and would not write any FORTRAN programs or be tested on FORTRAN. However, we were instructed to learn FORTRAN on our own. Well, almost no one kept their FORTRAN book or even bothered learning FORTRAN. I was lucky enough to have already learned most FORTRAN working on physics stuff. Our final program was to write a source converter in c to convert FORTRAN programs to c. Not only did we have to know FORTRAN, but we had to KNOW FORTRAN!
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You: Dad, I need help on my classpaths.
Dad: Ok, Where are your punch cards?
wouldn't it be good to wait until we hear the school's side of the story?
:)
You must be new around here..
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
why do you even bother posting these? you're affecting maybe 1 in 20 people who load the page. Christ, you've been getting first posts with this stuff for days now. Don't you have a job? How pathetic is your life that the most enjoyable thing you can do is hit the reload button all day?
My theory: first posters, goatse trolls and wide posters are all quadraplegics on disability. This would explain why they never type more than a few words because they have to blink in a pre-arranged sequence to get their letters translated to the screen. For this reason, they typically only do copy/paste because it's much easier on the eyes and gives their nursemaids more time to clean the feces out of their shorts.
Boy, I should hope so! Can you imagine how much it would suck to be payed in Cowboyneal? The exchange rate of Cowboyneals/Dollar can't be very good, and I don't know what you would do with more than a couple of them to keep under the sink and do menial labor for you. You'd be better off being paid in peanuts.
You: Dad, I need help on my classpaths.
Dad: Ask your mother.
Coming from a dual tech-language arts background, you just don't know how encouraged I am to see such a quality turn of phrase like this posted on slashdot. I feel better about the whole ordeal already. :)
More seriously, I think the above post is likely much closer to the truth than the "nuanaced" slashdot summary. But that's just my opinion.