Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Ben Pfaff
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 08:26 am

Charles Richmond <richchas@comcast.net> writes:

> 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...)

I'm afraid that this would be difficult to detect at Stanford for
many CS courses.  Here, the students can watch their lectures
online and many do.  This means that even in a large class of 100
or so we only see a few of them in class (maybe 10) on a regular
basis, so that we'd have a hard time telling who is whom.

I'm not too happy with this, but the university makes a lot of
extra money by making the lectures available online: they can
then offer the courses to students at local companies and remote
students who cannot attend them in person.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org

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