Matt Gerrans
Posts: 1153
Nickname: matt
Registered: Feb, 2002
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Re: New Programmer - Need help with assignemnt
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Posted: Nov 12, 2003 12:52 PM
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I knew it would come to this. Students so lazy that they don't even bother copy-and-paste the assignments and instead link to the assignment page.
Actually, this makes things more convenient. You might want to have a look at some of the not-so-fine print in your syllabus:
What you pass in must be your own work. Submission of group work is not acceptable. Incidents of plagiarism and other academic offences will be reported. (See the Faculty of Computer Science Plagiarism Statement (http://www.cs.unb.ca/html/plagiarism.html) and UNB's applicable regulations(http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/calendar/bin/display.cgi?tables=regulations&id=10).)
By the way, if you don't like and are not good at Java, why are you taking this course? Is it required for non-computer science majors?
Finally, does anyone know why universities still have people turn in computer science assignments printed on papaer? Isn't that kind of silly and wasteful of resources? If I were evaluating assignments, I'd want to be able to run them (on a machine for that specific purpose, which was not connected to the network!) and look at them in a syntax-highlighting IDE/editor. The only advantage of paper, is that it "freezes" a snapshot of what was turned in and can be used to settle any disputes about grading; This can be solve electronically, though: when assignments are checked in, apply a digital signature to the whole collection of files, logged it and send it to the student as a reciept. This could all be pretty easily automated. I imagine there are professors out there with more innovative systems than this, even. Anyone know of any?
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