Now, the purpose of the oral examination was simple - to establish whether the homeworks were actually done by that student or not. In my experience, if someone was cheating, he didn't have a clue whatsoever what the code he has handed in does. At best, he could memorize some superficial stuff and do some hand-waving over it. One or two targeted questions over the details of the assignment has always uncovered this. No need for any computerized code comparison tool
This was basically how our assignments were corrected. The lab assistants would go around each person and ask to be taken through the program the student had written. They'd ask a couple random questions about what a few random lines did. Would be pretty obvious if you were cheating. It worked very well, but then we weren't in one of those universities where you're not likely to ever meet half your class - it was small enough and got progressively smaller. I imagine for huge classes it might be impractical.
I got away with it once by mostly just renaming variables (and got marked down for bad variable naming practice;) ) but since I mostly knew and understood the code it passed. Never did it again though, not to that degree
I remember the other obvious way the lab assistants noted cheaters - on one occasion in particular our assignment was something easily googled and copied. People who could barely manage "hello world" the week before suddenly turned in fairly complex and good code;)
To all those mentioning group work and not reinventing the wheel, that's fine beyond a certain level, but if you're in an intro course you'd want to understand exactly what does what, before you can build on it in any meaningful way. It's almost like skipping all lessons in basic maths, adding and subtracting, just because a calculator does all those functions. Sure it does, but if you don't know any basic operations at all or understand how they work, you're going to be crippled later on in more advanced maths.
Heck, it's almost impossible to search for what you want on Google now, as it constantly changes your search terms. You pretty much have to add a + in front of every search keyword, in order to get what you want.
If you put your search term in quotation marks, it'll search the exact term
no need for constant +
I have to agree with the above.
What REALLY gets my goat is girls posting on fora going on and on about all the things they're going to get for v-day. What about getting HIM something, you spoilt little princesses?!
They'd be talking about "he's taking me away for the wkend to -exotic location- and getting me -overpriced gift- isnt that great"
No, it isn't. STFU. Unless you celebrate march 15th, get him something as well. V-day isn't your birthday.
Should really do away with the whole thing tbh.
(yes I have a bf, no I have nothing to be bitter about;) )
It's only been a few years for me, but this was my experience also. They brought their paper notes for reference, but derived everything nearly from memory. And since they were taking the time to work it out on the blackboard, the class had enough time to follow along, point out any possible errors, and take the notes on pen + paper as well.
Honestly I think it depends on the type of subject. I'm sure if it's an arts course, block notes might be useful, and you can type away. But for theoretical physics/maths, it was a lot better to work through the equations and derivations with the lecturer by taking notes, IMO. That way if you have any questions on any steps you could ask there and then.
All that said, by the final years our class sizes were about 20 people. Made that kind of thing a lot easier;)
How can a manor be offensive? Cannon sticking out the windows? Its colour scheme?
I suppose if it was painted in an ugly colour, that could be fairly offensive.
No, my position has been clear throughout: no generation is somehow more intellectual or significantly more educated than the others. I never said "no philosopher kings," but simply that if you were to essentially put a 15 year old kid now against a 15 year old kid from the 80s, 70s, 60s, etc. you are, on average, not going to notice that extreme a difference. In every generation you are going to have a small yet not insignificant number of people who are smart and well-educated. It's unfair to the current generation to somehow portray them as ignorant savages.
Might be slightly off from your discussion, but academic standards (in Ireland at least) are certainly dropping. That may not mean they're less "intellectual" these days, but probably not so well educated.
College degrees mean less than they used to, and the leaving cert has certainly become a lot easier over time.
I do have to point out (while I think the law is absolutely ridiculous, as do most of our population), they deliberately made it so that it's next to impossible to convict anyone for it.
Apparently it was only introduced to fulfil some part of our constitution. Why they didn't have a referendum/amendment is the obvious question; but the main point is that this law isn't to be taken seriously at all.
I wonder how making everyone more independent in an mmo by broadening their roles would affect playing together.
Can you imagine doing an instance where everyone feels like doing their own thing, pulling left and right, because they can handle it...?
It's also useful to specialise one particular area instead of being a useless jack of all trades. Maybe you could do that by what TFA describes, but if everyone ended up focusing on one area anyway what's the point...?
I would have as well.
For years there was discrimination against women in medicine. Wasn't a problem back then.
Now at our universities in ireland, there are far more women doing medicine courses than men. Now suddenly, it's a problem, and there needs to be "gender balance" again.
As well as changing the format of our final secondary school exams (which coincidentally the girls did better in than boys on average) to incorporate hpat tests.
Why can't they all just let people do the subjects they want instead of aiming for 50-50 in general? My computer science course had 50-50 girls/boys as far as I remember. Don't know how many graduated as I switched course.
You clearly pulled that number out of your ass. People can go through all sorts of trauma and lead fairly normal lives after. Kids are especially known for being able to "rebound" from trauma.
Being sexually abused doesn't make you somehow less-human and less capable of being "normal". This is a stereotype that's more damaging than you realize.
Define innocent civilian. If a person is housing a terrorist are they innocent? In the US if you house a criminal you can go to jail also - you do realize that?
I fell into the trap of "innocent civilian" myself, while quoting the original.
Civilian is civilian. And since US law has nothing to do with me, I didn't know. But it surely makes sense.
If it's thought to be an explosive device and they don't have a bomb unit then shooting it up, at distance, makes a lot of sense actually
I'm sure it makes sense, that wasn't my point. My original point was disbelief that they were complaining about something relatively very minor as bags being shot, and portraying this as being part of their long-suffering victim status. In the grand scheme of things, it might be an inconvenience, but it's not something to add to the "look how we suffer" list considering what's going on on THEIR side.
I'm not so much angry about the whole situation as annoyed + taken aback at the out-of-perspective whining.
Of course if someone is going to demand details about a comment I'll post up what I meant. I'm well aware I don't know enough about it which is why I said I'm not on anybody's side.
More than 400,000 Gazans were left without running water, while 4,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless; 80 government buildings were hit.[30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War
or the ongoing dispute about construction of wells/water buildings + farming which Israel are preventing them from building (there are further links about the below, especially relating to actual construction and needs, and differences in water consumption, but no time to look them up at this moment)
According to reports, Israeli soldiers shoot towards farmers working on their lands along the buffer zone nearly every week...During Operation "Cast Lead" which ended in January 2009, private houses, workshops, cattle farms, tree groves, agricultural roads, water wells and rain-fed crop fields located within the area were demolished by the Israeli army.
So "unfortunate reality" that the poor israelis might have some bags and laptops shot given all the above, well yes, it does make me question if they have a sense of reality. Or perspective.
To respond to another post:-
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game!
I'm not on anybody's side, except maybe the "let's not be hypocrites about this" side.
"I know many Jewish Israeli people who had their bag shot just because they left it unwatched for a couple of minutes. Yes, this is the unfortunate reality that Israelis live in, where Palestinian terrorist would do anything (such as put bombs cowardly hidden in laptops) to intentionally hurt innocent civilians..."
I can hardly believe some people. Broken laptop vs white phosphorus? Broken laptop vs bombed UN school?!
"Unfortunate reality" my backside, I really wonder if some of them know anything whatsoever about reality.
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Now, the purpose of the oral examination was simple - to establish whether the homeworks were actually done by that student or not. In my experience, if someone was cheating, he didn't have a clue whatsoever what the code he has handed in does. At best, he could memorize some superficial stuff and do some hand-waving over it. One or two targeted questions over the details of the assignment has always uncovered this. No need for any computerized code comparison tool
This was basically how our assignments were corrected. The lab assistants would go around each person and ask to be taken through the program the student had written. They'd ask a couple random questions about what a few random lines did. ;) ) but since I mostly knew and understood the code it passed. Never did it again though, not to that degree
;)
Would be pretty obvious if you were cheating. It worked very well, but then we weren't in one of those universities where you're not likely to ever meet half your class - it was small enough and got progressively smaller. I imagine for huge classes it might be impractical.
I got away with it once by mostly just renaming variables (and got marked down for bad variable naming practice
I remember the other obvious way the lab assistants noted cheaters - on one occasion in particular our assignment was something easily googled and copied. People who could barely manage "hello world" the week before suddenly turned in fairly complex and good code
To all those mentioning group work and not reinventing the wheel, that's fine beyond a certain level, but if you're in an intro course you'd want to understand exactly what does what, before you can build on it in any meaningful way. It's almost like skipping all lessons in basic maths, adding and subtracting, just because a calculator does all those functions. Sure it does, but if you don't know any basic operations at all or understand how they work, you're going to be crippled later on in more advanced maths.
Heck, it's almost impossible to search for what you want on Google now, as it constantly changes your search terms. You pretty much have to add a + in front of every search keyword, in order to get what you want.
If you put your search term in quotation marks, it'll search the exact term
no need for constant +
I have to agree with the above. ;) )
What REALLY gets my goat is girls posting on fora going on and on about all the things they're going to get for v-day. What about getting HIM something, you spoilt little princesses?!
They'd be talking about "he's taking me away for the wkend to -exotic location- and getting me -overpriced gift- isnt that great" No, it isn't. STFU. Unless you celebrate march 15th, get him something as well. V-day isn't your birthday.
Should really do away with the whole thing tbh.
(yes I have a bf, no I have nothing to be bitter about
It's only been a few years for me, but this was my experience also. They brought their paper notes for reference, but derived everything nearly from memory. And since they were taking the time to work it out on the blackboard, the class had enough time to follow along, point out any possible errors, and take the notes on pen + paper as well. ;)
Honestly I think it depends on the type of subject. I'm sure if it's an arts course, block notes might be useful, and you can type away. But for theoretical physics/maths, it was a lot better to work through the equations and derivations with the lecturer by taking notes, IMO. That way if you have any questions on any steps you could ask there and then.
All that said, by the final years our class sizes were about 20 people. Made that kind of thing a lot easier
How can a manor be offensive? Cannon sticking out the windows? Its colour scheme?
I suppose if it was painted in an ugly colour, that could be fairly offensive.
Ah, subtlety 3
Given the inclusion of "this begs the question" in his sig, used incorrectly, I'd guess it was meant ironically.
No, my position has been clear throughout: no generation is somehow more intellectual or significantly more educated than the others. I never said "no philosopher kings," but simply that if you were to essentially put a 15 year old kid now against a 15 year old kid from the 80s, 70s, 60s, etc. you are, on average, not going to notice that extreme a difference. In every generation you are going to have a small yet not insignificant number of people who are smart and well-educated. It's unfair to the current generation to somehow portray them as ignorant savages.
Might be slightly off from your discussion, but academic standards (in Ireland at least) are certainly dropping. That may not mean they're less "intellectual" these days, but probably not so well educated.
College degrees mean less than they used to, and the leaving cert has certainly become a lot easier over time.
Ireland just passed a blasphemy law.
I do have to point out (while I think the law is absolutely ridiculous, as do most of our population), they deliberately made it so that it's next to impossible to convict anyone for it.
Apparently it was only introduced to fulfil some part of our constitution. Why they didn't have a referendum/amendment is the obvious question; but the main point is that this law isn't to be taken seriously at all.
There's a morbid mathematical-legal job called an actuary...
Hey, we're not morbid! We just like predicting when everyone will die.
Since you just need to remove yourself from the gene pool, you don't have to lose your life. You could just horribly maim your genitals!
seems to be what happened here http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-14.html
I wonder how making everyone more independent in an mmo by broadening their roles would affect playing together.
Can you imagine doing an instance where everyone feels like doing their own thing, pulling left and right, because they can handle it...?
It's also useful to specialise one particular area instead of being a useless jack of all trades. Maybe you could do that by what TFA describes, but if everyone ended up focusing on one area anyway what's the point...?
I would have as well. For years there was discrimination against women in medicine. Wasn't a problem back then.
Now at our universities in ireland, there are far more women doing medicine courses than men. Now suddenly, it's a problem, and there needs to be "gender balance" again.
As well as changing the format of our final secondary school exams (which coincidentally the girls did better in than boys on average) to incorporate hpat tests.
Why can't they all just let people do the subjects they want instead of aiming for 50-50 in general? My computer science course had 50-50 girls/boys as far as I remember. Don't know how many graduated as I switched course.
You clearly pulled that number out of your ass. People can go through all sorts of trauma and lead fairly normal lives after. Kids are especially known for being able to "rebound" from trauma. Being sexually abused doesn't make you somehow less-human and less capable of being "normal". This is a stereotype that's more damaging than you realize.
"trauma" like parents divorcing, maybe. Sexual abuse, no. See for example: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/victim-became-suicidal-over-sex-assaults-in-church-sacristy-1978724.html
Define innocent civilian. If a person is housing a terrorist are they innocent? In the US if you house a criminal you can go to jail also - you do realize that?
I fell into the trap of "innocent civilian" myself, while quoting the original. Civilian is civilian. And since US law has nothing to do with me, I didn't know. But it surely makes sense.
If it's thought to be an explosive device and they don't have a bomb unit then shooting it up, at distance, makes a lot of sense actually
I'm sure it makes sense, that wasn't my point. My original point was disbelief that they were complaining about something relatively very minor as bags being shot, and portraying this as being part of their long-suffering victim status. In the grand scheme of things, it might be an inconvenience, but it's not something to add to the "look how we suffer" list considering what's going on on THEIR side.
I'm not so much angry about the whole situation as annoyed + taken aback at the out-of-perspective whining. Of course if someone is going to demand details about a comment I'll post up what I meant. I'm well aware I don't know enough about it which is why I said I'm not on anybody's side.
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game! Why, in MY day, we had broken laptops IN bombed UN schools!
It's a story about a fucking laptop, you twit. If there was ever a comment more deserving of an "off topic" mod, I haven't seen it.
Uh huh? Yeah, I play that game on my laptop all the time.
So which part do you disagree with? You don't feel that it's unfortunate? Or you don't believe it is reality?
I disagree with the emotive language implying that Palestinians are the only ones killing innocent civilians. Particularly given differences in death counts e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/gaza-city-fighiting-israel-un or the lack of running water for so many people
More than 400,000 Gazans were left without running water, while 4,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless; 80 government buildings were hit.[30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War or the ongoing dispute about construction of wells/water buildings + farming which Israel are preventing them from building (there are further links about the below, especially relating to actual construction and needs, and differences in water consumption, but no time to look them up at this moment)
According to reports, Israeli soldiers shoot towards farmers working on their lands along the buffer zone nearly every week...During Operation "Cast Lead" which ended in January 2009, private houses, workshops, cattle farms, tree groves, agricultural roads, water wells and rain-fed crop fields located within the area were demolished by the Israeli army.
So "unfortunate reality" that the poor israelis might have some bags and laptops shot given all the above, well yes, it does make me question if they have a sense of reality. Or perspective.
To respond to another post:-
Ohhh, I JUST love the "my side has it worse" game!
I'm not on anybody's side, except maybe the "let's not be hypocrites about this" side.
"I know many Jewish Israeli people who had their bag shot just because they left it unwatched for a couple of minutes. Yes, this is the unfortunate reality that Israelis live in, where Palestinian terrorist would do anything (such as put bombs cowardly hidden in laptops) to intentionally hurt innocent civilians..."
I can hardly believe some people. Broken laptop vs white phosphorus? Broken laptop vs bombed UN school?! "Unfortunate reality" my backside, I really wonder if some of them know anything whatsoever about reality.
Text messaging is much cheaper outside of the US, even in western Europe. We're getting the short end of the stick on this one :(
Indeed, there are a lot of "free texts to 1 network", or even "free texts to all networks" price plans.
I have been to Europe, Canada, and Mexico. I assure you, the US is by far the freest country of all the ones I have seen.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Europe isn't a country.
This is almost like a new pizza place would open in the town square and people would be lining to try it out.
No, it's almost like you don't know how to use the conditional tense correctly. http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/english-conditionals-an-introduction.html
Bring on peter hamilton's neural nanonics http://nightsdawn.wikia.com/wiki/Neural_nanonics