As far as I know, it's been in place for even longer than that. I just finished up my Master's, and the program was in place when I took the intro to CS class in 1996. Lord knows how long it was there before that.
A friend of mine, a senior TA for one of these courses, told me that on the first assignment of the semester, about 30% of the class cheated. The program catches straight out duplication as well as things like "Summer '96" and "Don't forget to remove this block."
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As far as I know, it's been in place for even longer than that. I just finished up my Master's, and the program was in place when I took the intro to CS class in 1996. Lord knows how long it was there before that.
A friend of mine, a senior TA for one of these courses, told me that on the first assignment of the semester, about 30% of the class cheated. The program catches straight out duplication as well as things like "Summer '96" and "Don't forget to remove this block."