Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism

[Ben Finney]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did a short time of teaching while I was in school. If three
> > students all turned in the same assignment, they all got docked
> > significantly. There was no "who copied off of whom?", it was
> > "someone shared when they shouldn't have."
>
> What a wonderful way to promote an attitude of "my code is MY CODE and
> should never leave my sight". What a delightful way of thinking to
> unleash on the world.

Teachers are asked to grade each student on how that student exercises
the relevant skills.

Sometimes the relevant skills include collaboration, in which case the
students should be expected and encouraged to base their work directly
on the work of others. In these cases, we would expect the teacher not
to discourage sharing of information.

But sometimes different skills are being examined, and the student
should be exercising skills on their own without basing it directly on
the work of others. In these cases, penalties for plagiarism are
appropriate, would you agree?

-- 
 \      “When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until |
  `\     I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried |
_o__)                                    other enemas...” —Emo Philips |
Ben Finney