in reply to Storage of homework source?

Not really. Most universities use the C/C++ languages, very few use Perl. Also, it is the professor's responsibility to know when a student is cheating. Exams do a much better job of weeding out cheaters than assignments do anyway. The purpose of an assignment is really just to give the students exercise, and those students who do not exercise are going to pay when the exam rolls along. Unless they have a wireless PDA and can sneak off to the bathroom. ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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Re: (jeffa) Re: Storage of homework source?
by TheHobbit (Pilgrim) on Jun 01, 2002 at 18:50 UTC

    Hi,
    well, I for one use Perl in teaching, and I agree mostly with Jeffa. I can generally see if a student wrote his/her own code or simply got it somewhere. Making the students <emph>explain</emph> their code helps a lot. If they just copied it from somewere they will be unable to do that. And if they can, then they understand the code... And I gave them a homework to make them understood something, didn't I?

    Another problem altogether are homework's <emph>question</emph>, frequently made by our friend Anonymous Monk. These questions more often than not show that the person asking them has made no effort at all to try and solve the homework he or she has got. I never reply to them (exept by giving a RTFM style answer if I realy get upset).

    By, the way... homeworks' solutions on perlmonks are not a problem for me, as I'm here and can check :))))

    Cheers

    Leo TheHobbit
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