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That's interesting. I can understand a professor wanting to control access to the starter code they provide to students, mostly to prevent cheating, but I've ne
by justinlardinois 10y ago
That's interesting. I can understand a professor wanting to control access to the starter code they provide to students, mostly to prevent cheating, but I've never heard of it coming with an explicit license. I know a few of my former UCSC classmates have school projects up on GitHub and haven't gotten any grief about it.
- codezero 10y agoYeah, I am pretty sympathetic to the instructor (a license is a license after all!), but at the same time wonder if the starter code and subsequent exercises being open makes the course too easy, and/or harder for the professor to grade aptitude, it may be a problem with the course itself.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoI'm not sure what the point grading aptitude in intro courses even is though? Either you learn the material or you don't - in case of the later you are going to really struggle in upper level courses.
- justinlardinois 10y agoIn which case the department would much rather have your lack of learning cause you to fail the lower division course, so you either retake the course and learn the material or switch to a different field of study.
- Bartweiss 10y agoSpeaking from experience, it may not be a professor's concerns. Campus administration occasionally runs amok and specifies licensing and IP standards for individual courses out of fear of lawsuits, producing all sorts of weird results like this.