I am depressed

Christian Graus

Yeah, it's obviously a magnet for morons. It just depresses me that they're able to stay in business. I wonder where the work is done, given that it's only $20 an hour. I guess it could be done by other CS students, who actually work. $20 an hour is good money for a student, I'd have tho Better than you'd get from McDonalds.

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Chris Losinger

depressed? why? they're teaching students a fundamental part of the programming business: outsourcing.

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Chris Losinger

Wjousts wrote:

I can't see the average CS student who is lost enough to use this service actually learning anything from it.

learning from the code is probably not even close to a consideration for the people who use that site. (reposted to try to get this attached to the right parent. GRRR. stupid f'in bug)

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Ernest Laurentin

Are you depressed because your homework is [too!] hard (<tease> )? :-O ;P BTW: It's good publicity to put their link on CP God bless, Ernest Laurentin -- modified at 18:56 Friday 6th July, 2007

Bassam Abdul Baki

Where's the math help site when you need it? :)

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J4amieC

Oh happy day Chris, we finally have a worthwhile link for "those" sort of questions in the programming forums.

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Jim Crafton

It's the friggin' internet, what *isn't* possible.

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Steve Hansen

Well I'm guessing they can re-use some of the code they made so they don't always have to build everything from scratch.

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Paul Conrad

J4amieC wrote:

we finally have a worthwhile link for "those" sort of questions in the programming forums

No kidding. I can see it now, a bunch of clickety links to the site :rolleyes:

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Craster

Created by superintelligent people, too. Would you buy code for a queueing system from people who can't spell queue? System.out.println("Que size is " + pq.size());

John M Drescher

And then the statement that you will get the maximum number of points. I guarantee all of my teachers would have deducted points for not commenting on this code. [EDIT]Hmm. Threading not working again as I replied to Wjousts post but it seems to favor this post. I did this twice with the same result...[/EDIT]

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MidwestLimey

Having worked with a guy who also taught at a local university I can assure you that suddenly seeing a flunking/deadbeat student pump out good solutions raises an eyebrow. I remember a case where that happened with him. The student in question was talked to about plagarism ..

I'm largely language agnostic

After a while they all bug me :doh:

Paul Conrad

Wjousts wrote:

Yeah, well documented

Only about 3 or 4 comments through the few files, how lame...

Wjousts wrote:

(more complex) Boolean circuit simulator

I wouldn't call it exactly complex, either... A quick glance at their Circular Queue example, makes it look like it is copied straight out of a data structures book...

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Paul Conrad

John M. Drescher wrote:

I guarantee all of my teachers would have deducted points for not commenting on this code.

In my class, I enforce comments on my students. There needs to be some, so anyone can have a good idea of what is going on in the code (me and the student when he/she looks at it in the future assignments). One comment here and there spread over several different files just doesn't cut it in my gradebook :rolleyes:

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Fred_Smith

Yeah but maybe it's a good place to redirect all those who post homework questions here on CP with subject lines like "URGENT!" :laugh:

Wjousts

Paul Conrad wrote:

I wouldn't call it exactly complex, either...

No, not complex, more complex than the other example. Certainly complex enough to warrant more comments.

Wjousts

Ernest Laurentin wrote:

homework is to hard

Homework is to hard as something is to something else? Or was it your English homework you were talking about? Why doesn't anybody seem to know the difference between "to" and "too" anymore?

Paul Conrad

Wjousts wrote:

Certainly complex enough to warrant more comments.

Totally. I think complexity of an algorithm or code is based on how knowledgeable a programmer is about the problem at hand. Sure a first year student may find it tough, but a person like me with a Master's in Computer Science and 15+ years industry experience wouldn't find it complex at all. It's in the eye of the beholder kind of thing :-D

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Leslie Sanford

From the FAQ Q. Do you support plagiarism? A. Of course not. We will provide you with a well-written sample solution to any problem that you send us, but it's your responsibility to put the effort to learn from it and do your assignments on your own. What do you make of that? Sometimes I answer questions on the C# programming forum just to give an example that the poster can hopefully learn from in writing their own solution. Could that be what they're doing? Or is it more likely that students are simply passing along the solutions as their own without putting in "the effort to learn from it"?