•Re: Sarah

I just need some advice on how to start.

That's best obtained from your professor, not us.

Either it's something you should have learned, or something that your instructor will want to know you didn't learn. In either case, asking us means that your instructor won't have an accurate view of what you accomplished in class. And your instructor will want to know that for your grade.

In other words, even asking this question, I'll suggest, is morally equivalent to cheating on a test.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re: Help with Perl movie database engine assignment by b10m (Vicar) on Nov 22, 2003 at 10:52 UTC
Besides the moral issue wheter this is concerned cheating or not, it can also get this student in problems. I helped out a friend once who had to hand in some Perl homework. The problem was that I'm a selfthaught Perl l-user. I don't obey certain rules (of formatting code for instance) that the student is supposed to use. Besides that, the professor found it slightly odd that this student -who just started the Perl course and wasn't very good at yet- came up with code containing `map` and likes ;) -- B10m	[reply]
Re: •Re: Sarah by jacques (Priest) on Nov 22, 2003 at 06:09 UTC
Interesting response. I'd never consider her question cheating. I wonder why. It's like the internet is this collective hive, which I rely on for so much. . . It would be cheating if I try to pass off someone else's work as my own. I believe that. But if you understand the work, the ideas behind it, what makes that work less your own than someone elses? Obstensibly I think that's silly, but then I think of all the times I learn something from someone else who got their answer from groups google and then I start to wonder: who's an author and what's original these days? I'd say the author's dead and the internet killed him.	[reply]