Plagiarism Detection ???
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Just wondering ...How does this software work for Universities..How does it check for code cheating...I want to write this piece of software but i am not sure how does it compare things..I know it search over the net and look over all the coding reference database to find the similar one...But if the student recompiled the code and made some changes then would this software gonna work. cheers James
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Dear university professors! Please consider starting with your own work. Come to think about, may be you're the first ones to be accused in plagiarism, well... sometimes? When I hear about student's assignment work done by copying someone's else work, it means that someone else already invented the problems, provided the solution or his/her students did; and may be you were the one to borrow the problem (may be with solutions(s)) and offer to your students. If your problems were original, your students would not have anything to copy, except some known algorithm to solve some partial problems, but that would be o.k. to do so. Now, I admit that it is very hard to invent a really original problem. I have created myself just a dozen or so, to count only decent ones. But I had a luxury to teach VERY few students; and I work at inventing problems quite rarely. Most problems come out when you do some real-life development combined with teaching/mentoring. So, anyway, before thinking about catching your students on plagiarism, I would kindly invite you to think some more about quality of your teaching. Thank you.
Sergey A Kryukov
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Just in case you weren't aware of it, Google has a special "Code Search" feature: http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced\_code\_search
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What is it about academia ? Punishing people for code resuse ? Whereas in a working environment you get punished for not resuing code. Where a key metric is how quickly you can deliver and the sponsor is not the least bit interested in who wrote the code.
peterwaine wrote:
Punishing people for code resuse ?
Do you need a lecture on how plagiarism and code reuse are different? I don't think so. I do believe you're smart enough to understand this: Plagiarism according to Wikipedia[^] Plagiarism is no more no less than a misrepresentation of the author of something -- a lie, a fraud.
Sergey A Kryukov