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How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS?

Posted by timothy on from the no-no-you-want-game-theory-down-the-hall dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Who cheats who by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Those people will eventually be discovered, but I every time that happens it weakens the value of the diploma from that school. That's bad for the graduates who actually worked. The schools need to stop this kind of thing from happening - that diploma certifies that the person earned it. Not that they cheated their way through a program. If it happens enough, they should lose their accreditation.