You might say they’re hoisted on their own choice of major
If you haven’t seen it yet, my Network World colleague Carolyn Marsan has an interesting story about cheating among computer science majors.
Here’s just one quote:
“The truth is that on every campus, a large proportion of the reported cases of academic dishonesty come from introductory computer science courses, and the reason is totally obvious: we use automated tools to detect plagiarism,” explains Professor Ed Lazowska, chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. “We compare against other student submissions, and we compare against previous student submissions and against code that may be on the Web. These tools flag suspicious cases, which are then manually examined.”
There’s a lot more. Good read.
