Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : lilburne
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 12:56 pm

Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Chris McDonald <chris@csse.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> 
> 
>>Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
>>
>>>[...3 out of 80 students cheating...]
>>>I hope this isn't typical.
>>
>>I'm not sure if I'm missing any possible saracism in this post,
>>but, no, Ben's experience is *far from* typical.
>>
>>I can unequivocably state that plagiarism rates in many university CS
>>courses, particularly in the first or second years, are far closer to
>>20%-30% of all students.  It's no big secret that it occurs.
> 
> 
> I was not attempting any form of sarcasm.  3 out of 80, or about
> 4%, seems much too high to me.  I'd be very distressed to hear
> about a plagiarism rate five times that.
> 

I found that producing 10-15 different implementations of an assignment 
held a challenge that the assignment itself did not.

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