Thanks Alan and Max for confirming my worst fears - and for supplying the necessary link, Max. This kid left at the end of term with no clue - and came back 2 weeks later with this script. As his paper work doesn't support the script, and his in-class understanding doesn't indicate the knowledge shown by the script - then I guess he gets a zero for this! Too bad.
Thanks for your help, fellows. Seems we need some more lessons on plagiarism and lifting code without due recognition! Diana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Max Noel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Diana Hawksworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <tutor@python.org> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] guess the number game help > > > And if they do understand it and know how to modify it then even > if > > > they did copy it they did the assignment and understood the code. > > > Software reuse is not necessarily an evil to be stifled... > > > > > > Have a look at the link I posted, Alan. Honestly, at that point > > it's not "software reuse" anymore. It's straight lifting of code > (and > > removing of comments that would identify the original author). > Worse, > > lifting of *bad* code that happened to be the first hit returned by > > Google, which tends to indicate that this particular student, > > But that was my point. Lifting bad code and stripping comments > suggests he/she didn't understand it. So the questioning should > reveal that. And without going very deep into the depths I suspect. > > But if they did take the time to understand how every line worked > after downloading it then it is indeed a passed assignment - finding > code and reusing it is a plus. BUT stripping the authors name is is a > no-no and should be pointed out - it may even be illegal and > prosecutable. > > Alan G. > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
