On Wed, December 5, 2007 1:35 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > >> 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. > > Well, there are a couple of issues here: > > 1) Copying (aka plagiarism) *by itself* doesn't really bother me that > much, actually. It's copying without understanding that causes a > problem. And, by the way, this is a problem in real-life, too. I have > had to break junior engineers of that habit. > > 2) In a class setting, copying the work of another for points is unfair > to the rest of the class. Someone gets points without doing the work. > > 3) However it is *my* job to ensure some level of fairness. This means > creating assignments and tests that will reward those who do the work > more than those who do not do the work. The creation of those kinds of > tests and assignments is time consuming so a lot of teachers skimp on it > and wind up rewarding plagiarism. > > I never really seem to have a problem with plagiarism. One student paid > me what I consider to be a high compliment, "Copying things in your > class is more work than just doing it yourself. Somehow, people who > copy code in your class never get it to work with all your tests." > > -a > >
Actually, I really do understand the distinction. I've taken CS classes. So there was some tongue in cheek. And, yes, mass copying of copyrighted code is a no-no. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
