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I TAed every semester of college except my first, and went to a small liberal arts school where cheating was legitimately uncommon. However, I'll never forget t
by tsm 9y ago
I TAed every semester of college except my first, and went to a small liberal arts school where cheating was legitimately uncommon. However, I'll never forget the following exchange:
Student: Why did you give me a 9/10 on the sorting lab?
tsm: Your shell sort didn't work for n > 7
S: But Professor Smith looked over my shoulder during the lab and said it looked fine.
tsm: And in fact it breaks for n > 7; I don't care if Alan Turing looked over your shoulder and said it was fine, if it breaks it breaks.
S: proceeds to pout at me for literally the rest of the semester, failing to understand how the professor-anointed code could have problems in it
- ec109685 9y ago9/10 was a very generous grade for that. I was saddened when I TA'd an operating systems class and not only caught two groups cheating, but numerous groups with race conditions in their Nachos code (you could fuzz the seed to change the system's execution order between threads and students clearly didn't test that). The professor wasn't harsh enough on either sets of groups, in my opinion.
- eutropia 9y ago7/10 would have been more appropriate. ;)