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How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS?
Pinky3 writes "The New York Times has an article on cheating in CS at Stanford. Here is a classic quote from one student: 'I wasn't even thinking of how it [sic] easy it would for me to be caught,' he said. One interesting strategy discussed is for the professor to make the final count for more of the final grade each time cheating is discovered. Share your experiences as a student and/or as an instructor."
I cheated and copied this post from another article.
From TFA: Mr. de la Torre was taking the computer science class for a second time in his junior year when he cheated. After he was disciplined, he resigned from his position as student body vice president in November
He shouldn't have resigned, I think he has the makings of a great politician...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
yep... easy to cheat in Counter Strike.
Some times not even later.
As a CS student my buddy and I (we were working as teams) were tired of people copying our stuff. We shared with anyone who wanted to, and had full read access for anyone to our code, so we didn't make it hard for them to copy. Still, it was annoying to do the work and then have others just copy and hand in.
Our assignments required print-outs delivered with the software (yes, this is before there was even an internet) and we suspected people just copied our software, compiled it (which incidentally at the time could take hours) and ran it without even looking at it. So, just for fun, we inserted into our own code the equivalent of a system call to "rm -rf $HOME/*" (yes, this is before we got our Pyramid Unix boxes, so it was not exactly that). We did this two days before the assignment was to be delivered. It took less then an hour before we heard the first "WHAT THE F#CK HAPPENED???". Five teams were unable to deliver their assignments.
Interestingly two of the teams complained about our behavior to the professor. His only reaction was to ask if they had some serious mental problems (or the polite equivalent). I am sure today we would have been sued and the morons would have won since we "hacked" their accounts.
Usually makes sense to establish what CS is in any article headline to establish defined context.
So it used to be a lot easier to cheat in CS. I used to use an old wallhack that I hex edited and was able to use for years without detection. When they switched from WON to Steam, it all became harder.
You meant computer science?
When I took CS101 I was well beyond the level of the class, so, in order to make the programming assignments interesting, I added extra functionality on top of what was requested. Little stupid stuff mostly, but I tried to make it clever, and since the testing was automated, it didn't matter as long as it was to spec.
The last project was to write a program to simulate one of those stupid "digital pets"; it had to have a pet object, and various, feed, cuddle, punish, methods, etc.
One of the boundary conditions was that the pet had to starve if you didn't feed it, but the program was set so that you could have as many pets as you wanted at the same time...Well, I decided to put a little rock 'n roll in there, and if one pet hadn't been fed for a certain amount of time, he had a chance to start a "pet deathmatch", and try to eat another pet.
The code for the combat and the actual fight was massive. Most peoples code was a couple of pages...mine was closer to 50.
I printed it out at one point, so I could take it to dinner and work on some bug, and someone swiped it off the printer, and subsequently copied the WHOLE THING and turned it in for the assignment.
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