9 mo. ago • 93%

Anon is a T.A.

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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.

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- Their teachable moment is that plagiarism has consequences, and they earned that lesson entirely by themselves.
  
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  Sure, but as a general rule the carrot is a better incentive than the stick.
  
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- College students know that cheating is not allowed. You learn this in first grade. I don't know why you would need to keep "teaching" that to students.
  
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- "Teachable moments" are for freshmen. Cheating seniors can get fucked.
  
  On a very related note, I actually earned my CS degree.
  
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  As someone who only cheated in one class because the professor was a lazy fuck and assigned 5 hours worth of problems for a 1 hour exam with no regard to whether it was completable, I agree. The whole class cheated, because they had to. We actually all knew the material really well because distributing that material across 20 students was still iffy on time.
  
  He's dead now, the lazy fuck. Fuck you Dr. Aung.
  
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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.

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- universities take plagiarism very seriously. Friend of mine teaches stage craft (how to make sets, props, costumes, lighting and sound design/planning/execution/engineering)
  
  First semester, first test, easy pass: Someone pokes their head into the class and my friend goes to the door to answer them, stepping outside for like ~30 seconds
  
  comes to mark the papers:
  
  "In a proscenium theater, what is the very front of the stage called?"
  
  Real answer: apron
  
  55% of the student answers: the same made up word that sounded vaguely Portuguese with no hits on Google.
  
  even though it's super dumb and super easy and barely matters at all and is a one word answer to a basic question - the students ended up being investigated by the university and my friend had all his classes audited.
  
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  I may be dumb, but to clarify: they were assumed cheating because the word was fake, and the only reason for so many duplicated fake answers would be if they shared a faulty answer sheet. Right?
  
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- Cheating is taken VERY seriously at every decent University. As it should.
  
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  Still, cheating to some extent exists everywhere. This just weeds out the real lazy or stupid cheaters. Which is also some kind of quality check, I guess.
  
  To cheat properly, I've has to be a bit clever and shrewd, which is a valuable character trait. Maybe not the most moral one, but real life isn't all moral either. 🤷‍♂️
  
  Sometimes the best and most efficient solutions are created by just cleverly combining the work of others.
  
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- I hope my Uni had this. I have never cheated, but cheaters sometimes have better grades than me.
  
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  I guess that would harm you if the class is graded on a curve. I'm not saying they shouldn't be caught and penalized, only that expulsion from the university is a harsh penalty. Automatic failure of the class would hurt plenty, without utterly destroying someone's life.
  
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- Nah fuck em
  
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when a professor does this they're "based" and "brainpilled" but when I pretend to sell crack on the benches outside, all of a sudden the judge claims it's "entrapment" and "illegal" smh....

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- At this point I'm only hoping to emerge from the other side of the "based" fad although I've never understood what it meant. WTaF is "brain pilled"?
  
  Groovy. Tubular. Fetch.
  
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  Here's the real answer for based:
  
  "Based" (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s
  
  Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following
  
  As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.
  
  Brain pilled is a reference to The Matrix f/t Keanu Reeves in which Morpheus - whose namesake is the God of dreams - offers to wake up Neo from his fake reality by taking the red pill - leading to the phrase "red pilled" meaning (a right wing variant of) "woke." Over time [x]-pilled became slang like how Watergate/ [x]-gate became a suffix to imply an imbrolglio.
  
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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.

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- At a certain point though, you've just plain done the work. If you jump through enough hoops to cheat then you have to know the material well enough. Like doing a bunch of editing passes on downloaded papers.
  
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You are the Devil.

I mean you really are, you tempted people into sin and then laughed as they were damned for it.

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This is why fizzbuzz exists

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What is TA?

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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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Wish more teachers had that dedication to something, in general.

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- At university most teachers have serious dedication. It's just not for teaching, lmao.
  
  But once you do your thesis, discussion in their respective fields of research or general expertise is really awesome.
  
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  It’s just not for teaching, lmao.
  
  Exactly. The "Ugh, these annoying students are keeping me from doing something useful" is very strong with some of them.
  
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This is equal part fucked up and you get what's fucking coming to you

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Isn't this basically the same thing as entrapment?

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- Entrapment is coercing someone into committing a crime they wouldn't have otherwise.
  
  This was a honeypot. A bait for those who were already looking to cheat.
  
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  There's no evidence that those who cheated were already going to.
  
  The prof said it was only suspected that students were cheating, and instead of investigating and collecting evidence, he fabricated evidence through his own encouragement of the same crime he seeks to denounce.
  
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That's entrapment. If it's illegal for a cop to make an arrest like that, the professor shouldn't be able to get people expelled like that.

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Mfw anon starts greentext with "be me". Can’t you find another opener.

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- No, that's the format.
  
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- Be someone else
  
  Doesn't have quite the same ring.
  
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