On Wed, December 5, 2007 11:50 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Gus Wirth wrote:
>> I saw this on the Lazarus developers list and thought it was an
>> interesting tool.
>>
>> Similarity Testing <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html>
>>
>> In case you need need to know who is copying from whom.
>
> I find that the best plagiarism detector is a source code repository.
>
> And, as I tell my students, check in early and often. Nothing is better
> for defending *against* charges of plagiarism than a nice rich revision
> history.
>
> I actually had an accusation of plagiarism against two of the students
> in one of my classes. It was very nice to be able to pull the code and
> the revision history and refute it quickly.
>
> Besides--plagiarism is stupid. You can probably buy someone in India to
> actually write the code for you for about 100 dollars or so.
>
> My only defense against that is to make sure that the midterm and final
> are worth enough to penalize that kind of behavior.
>
> -a
Good poets borrow. Great Poets steal.
- T. S. Eliot
It amuses me that borrowing is plagerism in college and a best practice in
later life.
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