Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Ben Pfaff
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 12:14 pm

Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com> writes:

> What is amazing, though, is that many of
> these people actually make it through some fairly difficult
> courses. You sometimes have to wonder what the grading criteria was
> for these programs, and the amount of cheating that is occurring.
> I've seen some complete idiots graduate from decent CS programs.

A colleague of mine here at Stanford found 3 students cheating
out of a class of 80 that he taught during spring quarter.  One
of those students had actually turned in the same plagiarized
code the previous quarter (and had been found out that quarter as
well).

I hope this isn't typical.
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