Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Charles Richmond
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 02:03 am

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
In my university, one Iranian sent a friend (also an Iranian) to
take his math test for him. Of course the professor was *not* fooled
and I am sure that proper action was taken. (I can't say if the
guy tried it again the next semester...)

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