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Been hearing that lots of students are getting points deducted from their waxman 211 midterm because of suspected cheating. How are they determining who cheated? By Formatting.
Been hearing that lots of students are getting points deducted from their waxman 211 midterm because of suspected cheating. How are they determining who cheated? By Formatting.
Imagine being a teacher and saying, “hmm, this code is readable, they must have cheated”. I feel like trying to make code neater is fine, especially when we’re typing code in that trashy blackboard submission box, but basing the suspicion of cheating on just the format, is a fallacy. Idk if it was the same for everyone but when I indented to make a new line, it always looked like I indented twice. And I had to indent because for me the line would keep on going and it would make the scroll tabs even smaller. A TA mentioned they checked submissions for formatting from IDE. I know it says not to use ide and to only type on the submission box but let’s say this. You write out the answer to the problem on the ide, now you write the same answer on the submission box. From scratch. And If you have etiquette you would do your best to make your code readable. After doing that, it looks like you copy and pasted from an IDE, and the grades being based on formatting is a bit weird. Students that didn’t cheat and did their best to format the code to be readable are getting points taken away because of the formatting. That is a huge fallacy and I hope the graders have another form of determining who cheated because those that didn’t are getting screwed over.
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