Cold and dreary
I am here at the George Street lab starting work. My family is in Kansas in Hutch enjoying the country life, I will join them hopefully soon. A little depressing here.I got done grading the finals for my intro to computing class. Turns out Doc and I uncovered a cheating ring of at least 4 students. It was almost entertaining to see how little they did to change their homework from each other. One guy even forgot to change the name and left another name on the HW he submitted. Doc didn't enjoy the thought of prosecuting them and all the paperwork to fill out. I think he decided to give them all 0's for those hws. He sent out the email yesterday, I am curious if any of them object.
It seems to me that it would pay to not be lazy if you are not going to be honest. If they would have changed just a little more on the hws it would have been so much harder to catch. Maybe laziness and dishonesty go together? I am constantly overestimating students these days, just when I think they can't get any more flaky they do something new that shocks me and makes me shake my head. Was I this way back at KSU? Maybe I just dont remember it right. I do know that all these kids have jobs before they are out of school, jobs with signing bonuses.
posted by Flippo @ 6:01 AM
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Okm my friend (MJ) and I have questions. I know you are an engineering student. Is this Intro to Computing class in the engineering department. Are the cheating students engineering majors? We in the computing industry hope these cheating students are not computer science majors. Though to be honest, once in the workplace you are encouraged to use other people's work. Still, I wouldn't want to work with any cheating slackers newly minted from school. Fresh grads are hard enough to work with. I'm glad I'm retiring. Have I mentioned lately that I'm retiring?
We need more pictures of the kids.
Your Big Sister
These are engineers that are made to take a class that gives them some insight to programming. They are told they can get help from others but must cite them in their program, there was no citing other than the one guy who forgot to take off the name. So technically I guess he cited the author? I am sure that computer science majors have program plagiarism down to a fine art. At least I hope they would change something in their program.... yeah but lets see them model a dynamic system!
sounds like a Class II penalty, they should wear big red C's on their shirts.
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