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40%  Projects
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• Assignment description
• Author’s name
• Date
• Input and output if they are part of the assignment
• If the program doesn’t run successfully, write a short paragraph as part of the program header explaining the problem.

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As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

For a simple assignment, writing code that would allow one computer to visit web pages located on another, two students in H. E. Dunsmore’s class at Purdue University turned in nearly 100 identical lines of code. Was it a fluke? Or had they cheated?

As he looked over their work, Mr. Dunsmore, a veteran computer science professor, saw what he called the smoking gun:

boolean done = true;

while (!done) {

Because they had written !done — the exclamation point means “not” — the program translated it as “not true,” which made the program ignore the code that followed, causing it to fail. In a class of about 450, they were the only ones who made that fatal mistake.

“This is pretty strong evidence that one had copied the other,” Mr. Dunsmore said.

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Though coding is a foreign language to most people, the principles of plagiarism are the same as with papers written in English.

Sometimes it is acceptable for lines of code to be identical, if the code is performing a routine task or one that cannot be done a different way. But other times it is a red flag.