I understand cheating is shitty but it would make a lot more sense for the teacher to make this a teachable moment about cheating, and to promote collaborative solutions, but also checking work you get from others.
A huge part of development is copying code and reusing code from libraries. The important part is that you know how the code you copy works.
Their teachable moment is that plagiarism has consequences, and they earned that lesson entirely by themselves.
The important part is that you know how the code you copy works.
i wish my deadlines are not hard enough so that i could actually take time to learn everything from the code i copy.
On the one hand: awww, poor cheater world’s smallest violin meme
On the other hand: expulsion from the university for a first offense seems… harsh.
I’m going to allege that such “educational” institutions’ focus on “cheating” is harmful and dangerous for their students.
I’m a flight instructor. Students would show up to my class actually afraid to be caught writing things down to refer to them later. They were afraid to be caught using checklists. They would overwhelm themselves trying to commit entire technical manuals to memory. That’s not how anything actually works. The FAA prints all these references so pilots can read them. We don’t take them away from you when you pass your practical.
Checklist usage in the cockpit is a required skill to pass a practical test. The examiner has to see you using a checklist during the test in order to pass you. Writing things down so you can refer to them later, like flight planning and ATC clearances, also a required skill. Schools make people afraid to do these things.
If you’ve got a kneeboard that has the tower light gun signal chart printed on it, and you lose the radio and need light gun signals, you’re not going to have your license taken away from you if you use that quick reference. Too many students bring that pressure into flight training with them. It’s a fun bit of deprogramming to do.
Cheating in academia is the name of the game. There is a survivor bias here assuming the other 78 students didn’t cheat. They’re Learning how to not get caught. Building a better trap may simply yield a better better cheater. The proof ends up being in the work.
I still think honeypots are amusing AF.
What is TA?
Teacher’s Assistant/Teaching Aide
Basically an older student helping teach the younger ones as a parttime job. Generally involves a lot of crappy work like supervising labwork, helping out with grading and answering the same question 18 times.
Can be real fun though and often you get deeper insight into the subject than just attending a class or gain valuable connections into the institute.
