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In college, you are punished for using others source. After college, you are rewarded. Perhaps there is a better way to teach than giving an entire class the
by dockd 17y ago
In college, you are punished for using others source.
After college, you are rewarded.
Perhaps there is a better way to teach than giving an entire class the exact same assignment. I wonder if you might find the same results in the basic math classes, where non-math majors just have to "tough it out". I would think it's harder to catch copying because the work can't be easily analyzed by a computer.
- dbz 17y agoOf course in college you are punished! For a whole boat load of students this is their first time programming (a bad time to start imho). We want them to learn. Not to hack something together! =]
- dasil003 17y agoYes, but in the real world you are constantly faced with novel (albeit simple) problems, whereas in college you're doing the same trivial thing tens of thousands have done before you. If you can't put forth the effort to figure things out on the canned problems how will you ever become competent to ship working software?
- swolchok 17y agoThis argument gets trotted out in all sorts of internet discussions re: CS education, and it's bogus. You have to be able to stand on your own before you can contribute meaningfully to a group. More importantly, individualized assignments don't scale to classes of one or two hundred students.