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As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating
More than 60 students in Harvard's Computer Science 50 course were referred to the university's honor council, which investigates cheating allegations.
Credit: The New York Times
College students have flooded into computer science courses across the United States, recognizing them as an entree to coveted jobs at companies like Facebook and Google, not to mention the big prize: a start-up worth millions.
The exploding interest in these courses, though, has coincided with an undesirable side effect: a spate of high-tech collegiate plagiarism. Students have been caught borrowing computer code from their friends or cribbing it from the Internet.
Computer science professors are now delivering stern warnings at the start of each course, and, like colleagues in other subjects, deploy software to flag plagiarism. They have unearthed numerous examples of suspected cheating.
From The New York Times
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