[Tutor] catching cheaters (cont.)

[Timothy Wilson]

Hi everyone,

I located the Web page of the professor I mentioned in my initial
message. He has a GPL'ed version of his 'Copyfind' software on his Web site
at http://plagiarism.physics.virginia.edu/. The source is available
(obviously for a GPD'ed program), but it's in C++. I think I can read it
well enough to come up with some ideas of my own. Interestingly, he posts a
list of improvements that could be made to the software and invites people
to try to improve it.

This could be a fun project to work on. And as they say in the free software
world, most projects of this type get started because someone writes
something to "scratch their own itch."

-Tim

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