dekudekup...@yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell) writes: > When I was a student at my college, one of the students once told me a > secret about how a computer program ran by a professor for a course in > introduction to systems programming checked to ensure that the students > who were submitting homework assignments worked independently: the > program counted the number of occurrences of each type of structure > (for-loop, while-loop, if-then statement,etc.), and compared the counts > for the types of structures among assignments between different > students.
Minor typo corrections: 1) "computer program ran by" -> "computer program run by" 2) "if-then statement,etc." -> "if-then statement, etc." (missing period) Incidentally, regarding the programming assignment, the student who was caught by the structural similarity checking program reportedly received an e-mail message from the professor asking to explain the similarity. He never replied to that message, and subsequently received a grade of 0 for that assignment. -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list