Ahahahahahaha! Mod article +5 Funny. I haven't laughed that much all day! BTW, you owe me a new keyboard. 'We've got to do some work about having them believe and feel that printing isn't a sort of environmental negative.' What? Cutting down trees is an environmental POSITIVE? Seriously, It isn't April 1st anymore. My sides hurt.
Interesting. I have certainly cited my own blog before which seemed to be a way around citing unpublished personally written code and concepts.
Thinking back on my submitted assignment now (I have given it far too much thought considering the number of years that have passed in between) I believe that the comments at the top of the code included the full changelog of the entirity of the assignment. Things that were changed or added and on what dates. There was a full history of the development in the source which would have included "copied function x from assignment y from 'year'". The only difference is that this would not be on the function itself due to the comments being purely based on its usage.
Anyway, this is getting far away from my original points on how plaigiarism is detected and dealt with. We had to buy a manual on the citation methods required for assignment submission, of which there was no mention of how to cite anything other than standard written assignment types, eg reports.
It seemed to me at the time that they were more focused on direct copying irregardless of citation.
Maybe if I am in a similar situation in future I shall use the following commenting standard for citing my own work:
// As dwarfsoft stated in Assignment 2, 2005 " int l(char*O) {
return*O?1+l(++O):0; }//". He makes some valid points, which I wish to elaborate in the following code: ...
Well, for written assignments, sure. But for code? AFAIK there is no method for citing code because they always expect it to be written by the submitter. Makes it a very grey area for such submissions.
But also, in that vein, you would expect that any submission should cite the previous submissions, and in that case editors would have to deal with articles and books with a lot of self referencing.
Well, it probably flagged it as plaigiarism. Probably gave a comparison of the original source and the submitted source. Then if there are obvious similarities they simply say "yep, definitely plaigiarised".
They probably never considered that over more than one year that a student would use the same code in the same class. It was some years ago now, so maybe they have refined their process.
The problem with this is for people redoing classes. I had redone a class and submitted code which included a function that I had written in the same class the first time round. I got flagged as plaigiarising. Fortunately this one got sorted out and they realised that they were in fact wrong.
My wife, however, was taking a non computer-science course and between the two years there was the same assignments for a class she needed to repeat. She changed it to make it better and submitted it. Then she was flagged as plaigiarising. It took 2 years to sort out that the lecturer was a douche and they were eventually fired. It was a lot of effort to go to though. So, automated tools are great, but it does need to be adressed by humans (which TFA and TFS does say too).
When I was forced to read that book in English I thought that it was the worst thing ever.... Then they introduced me to Sylvia Plath. Only then did I laud the absolute genius of The Catcher in the Rye. Simply put: ANYTHING is better than Sylvia Plath. </obvious bias>
I was given one of these atrocities for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I guess they subscribed to the "picture tells a thousand words" philosophy.
Everything is propaganda. If Hitler had won then we would have been brainwashed/re-educated to believe he was the Lord and Saviour himself.
At least these days with the Internet there are more varying media reports, but we still have to filter the lot of it to weed out the subtext and the motives behind it first.
I think when they referred to "cross-platform" they were referring to it being a "a simple Indiana Jones platformer" on multiple devices. Other than that the cross part is because it's a/. post and they knew somebody would be cross:)
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them? Rimmer: But five of them? . How can you manage to miss five black holes? Holly: It's always the way, isn't it? You wait three million years for one to come along, then all of a sudden five turn up at once.
I used to work for a place that sold them. Had a long run of batches with 60-80% failure rate within a year. Maybe they just couldn't take the Australian conditions but I certainly steered clear of them personally.
By buying a Samsung drive you have already resigned yourself to a drive failure. Might as well weed out the shite first. I don't disagree with mixing and matching, but at least make sure the drives you are buying aren't brands that tend to fail within the first year.
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Ahahahahahaha! Mod article +5 Funny. I haven't laughed that much all day! BTW, you owe me a new keyboard. 'We've got to do some work about having them believe and feel that printing isn't a sort of environmental negative.' What? Cutting down trees is an environmental POSITIVE? Seriously, It isn't April 1st anymore. My sides hurt.
Does this mean that the pope was right? Blasphemy!
It was only a matter of time before this happened. iPwned.
It's coming right for us!
Interesting. I have certainly cited my own blog before which seemed to be a way around citing unpublished personally written code and concepts.
Thinking back on my submitted assignment now (I have given it far too much thought considering the number of years that have passed in between) I believe that the comments at the top of the code included the full changelog of the entirity of the assignment. Things that were changed or added and on what dates. There was a full history of the development in the source which would have included "copied function x from assignment y from 'year'". The only difference is that this would not be on the function itself due to the comments being purely based on its usage.
Anyway, this is getting far away from my original points on how plaigiarism is detected and dealt with. We had to buy a manual on the citation methods required for assignment submission, of which there was no mention of how to cite anything other than standard written assignment types, eg reports.
It seemed to me at the time that they were more focused on direct copying irregardless of citation.
Maybe if I am in a similar situation in future I shall use the following commenting standard for citing my own work:
int l(char*O)
{
return*O?1+l(++O):0;
}
Are you saying that Windows Firewall wont protect me?!
</sarcasm>
Well, for written assignments, sure. But for code? AFAIK there is no method for citing code because they always expect it to be written by the submitter. Makes it a very grey area for such submissions.
But also, in that vein, you would expect that any submission should cite the previous submissions, and in that case editors would have to deal with articles and books with a lot of self referencing.
Well, it probably flagged it as plaigiarism. Probably gave a comparison of the original source and the submitted source. Then if there are obvious similarities they simply say "yep, definitely plaigiarised".
They probably never considered that over more than one year that a student would use the same code in the same class. It was some years ago now, so maybe they have refined their process.
The problem with this is for people redoing classes. I had redone a class and submitted code which included a function that I had written in the same class the first time round. I got flagged as plaigiarising. Fortunately this one got sorted out and they realised that they were in fact wrong.
My wife, however, was taking a non computer-science course and between the two years there was the same assignments for a class she needed to repeat. She changed it to make it better and submitted it. Then she was flagged as plaigiarising. It took 2 years to sort out that the lecturer was a douche and they were eventually fired. It was a lot of effort to go to though. So, automated tools are great, but it does need to be adressed by humans (which TFA and TFS does say too).
I guess you don't know the difference between "first man into space" and "first man on the moon". You fracking mormon ;)
You mean this?
Ah the The Vaughans, I have waited patiently for years to link to thee.
When I was forced to read that book in English I thought that it was the worst thing ever.... Then they introduced me to Sylvia Plath. Only then did I laud the absolute genius of The Catcher in the Rye. Simply put: ANYTHING is better than Sylvia Plath. </obvious bias>
I was given one of these atrocities for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I guess they subscribed to the "picture tells a thousand words" philosophy.
He does it the same way Strongbad does
Everything is propaganda. If Hitler had won then we would have been brainwashed/re-educated to believe he was the Lord and Saviour himself.
At least these days with the Internet there are more varying media reports, but we still have to filter the lot of it to weed out the subtext and the motives behind it first.
You just had to ask.
As with everything, xkcd delivers. My personal favorite :)
People often get caught assuming that Correlation == Causation.
Here, I found your <stdlib.h> for you. < ftw.
...The expression to describe such an fortunate event would be ...
I conclude from your use of "an" that you originally thought that this was an unfortunate event...
Yeah, he should have gone with a car analogy instead...
I think when they referred to "cross-platform" they were referring to it being a "a simple Indiana Jones platformer" on multiple devices. Other than that the cross part is because it's a /. post and they knew somebody would be cross :)
Counting? That's more math! I don't think he will be doing any of that.
Holly: Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them? . How can you manage to miss five black holes?
Holly: It's always the way, isn't it? You wait three million years for one to come along, then all of a sudden five turn up at once.
I used to work for a place that sold them. Had a long run of batches with 60-80% failure rate within a year. Maybe they just couldn't take the Australian conditions but I certainly steered clear of them personally.
By buying a Samsung drive you have already resigned yourself to a drive failure. Might as well weed out the shite first. I don't disagree with mixing and matching, but at least make sure the drives you are buying aren't brands that tend to fail within the first year.