[Tutor] guess the number game help

[Max Noel]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 09:49, Diana Hawksworth wrote:

> Hello list!
>  
> I have started teaching Python to a group of High School students. I 
> set them the "Guess the Number" game as a GUI as an assignment. One of 
> the students has passed in some script that is foreign to any tutorial 
> work we have done.  Some of it is below. Does anyone recognise it? Can 
> you tell me where it would have been downloaded from? I have searched 
> for scripted guess the number games, but there are thousands of them - 
> except for a Python version.
>  
> If my student has plagiarised - I need to know.
>  
> TIA Diana

	I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm afraid he has: 
http://granite.sru.edu/~conlon/python/tk_guess.py
	This looks awfully similar, down to the use of whrandom instead of 
random. First hit in Google for "guess the number" +python +tkinter.
	Seems like your student is not only guilty of plagiarism, but also in 
violation of the GPL.

Hope that helps,
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