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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.
I gotta ask... if I forget to flush the toilet, is it an Honor Code violation if somebody else flushes it for me?
Don't be too quick to answer - maybe I need a stool sample for one of those 'blood in stool' tests and forgot the test kit until the deed was done.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
But learning heres against the rules
This here schools just for fools
Frankly, I find physics majors make better programmers. They take a much more applied approach instead of theoretical and they get more experience trying to get their equipment to work where as CS majors just blow off practicing algorithms or get happy with "power programming" that is unmaintainable. CS majors do it cause they want to (and won't when they don't) while physics majors do it because they have to. Those that will take the time to figure out what they need to learn, learn what they have to and how to apply it to the real world make better programmer employees.