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From: wf@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Bill Findlay)
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/07
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Date: 1999-09-07T00:00:00+00:00
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> Robert Dewar wrote:
...
> In fact when I teach CS courses, I explain at the start
> that it is just fine to borrow code from anywhere, under
> any circumstances *PROVIDING THAT* proper credit is given,
> and I note that if the top of your assignment says "this
> was written entirely by so-and-so who helped me out", that
> this is not cheating, but you won't get much credit.

This is our policy, spelled out to students in an 'ethical contract'
that they are obliged to read and sign at the start of the course.

> Remember that when a professor gives out an assignment in a
> CS course, the assignment is NOT to turn in a program that
> does XYZ, it is to *learn* how to write a program that does
> XYZ, and I think we all understand that doing things yourself
> is an essential part of learning.

Precisely!

-- 
Bill Findlay
Department of Computing Science
The University of Glasgow