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Computer Science Students Outsource Homework

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-happened-to-putting-it-into-your-graphing-calculator dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "'If U.S. companies can go online to outsource their programming, why can't U.S. computer students outsource their homework--which, after all, often involves writing sample programs?' Wall Street Journal colummnist Lee Gomes asks. 'Scruples aside, no reason at all. Search for "homework" in the data base of Rent A Coder projects, and you get 1,000 hits. (An impressive number, but still a tiny fraction of all computer students, the vast majority of whom are no doubt an honest and hardworking lot.)' Some of the Rent a Coder users appear to be outsourcing their way through school, at low costs--probably less than $100 per assignment. The posting are, of course, anonymous, but Gomes traces one to a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where an instructor tells him that Rent a Coder contributed to a problem of plagiarism last semester."

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  2. Re:Why bother? by cmacb · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because there IS no easier field than Computer Science (well, OK, excluding Journalism) particularly the way it is practiced today.

    Computer Science .ne. Rocket Science

    But one good thing about the article, is that it reminds us that a good education prepares us for what we will be doing after we get out of school. I'm afraid standard operating procedures around many American companies will be to have the guys here write up some loose specs that can be refined and implemented over in countries where they learned how to do something more than click "Wizard" commands in Visual Studio.

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