Talking about utter nonsense. Did you actually read your own post?
You wrote the following comment:
"Keep in mind if your work resembles another's too closely you'll get nailed for cheating, so even if several people solved the problem together they'd essentially have to reimpliment it differently from one another..."
Well guess how he got accused of cheating? Could it be that his code resembled another student's code? Bingo. You win a prize.
To top it all off, Georgia Tech announced publicly that they were going to use a new piece of software that would catch cheaters. The article mentioned that other students didn't bother to turn in the homework; they knew that they would have been busted. This guy probably thought the threat was not valid.
He was wrong...
Chris
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Talking about utter nonsense. Did you actually read your own post? You wrote the following comment: "Keep in mind if your work resembles another's too closely you'll get nailed for cheating, so even if several people solved the problem together they'd essentially have to reimpliment it differently from one another..." Well guess how he got accused of cheating? Could it be that his code resembled another student's code? Bingo. You win a prize. To top it all off, Georgia Tech announced publicly that they were going to use a new piece of software that would catch cheaters. The article mentioned that other students didn't bother to turn in the homework; they knew that they would have been busted. This guy probably thought the threat was not valid. He was wrong... Chris