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> It's a "victimless crime" essentially. It's not a victimless crime. 1. Every CS class I took had some form of curve. People cheating directly lowered the gr
by learc83 9y ago
> It's a "victimless crime" essentially.
It's not a victimless crime.
1. Every CS class I took had some form of curve. People cheating directly lowered the grade of people who didn't.
2. Cheating devalues the credentials that other students paid for. You can argue about the benefits of the credentialing system, but that doesn't change that fact that students cheating directly financially harms students who don't cheat.
3. It harms job seekers who now have to spend time going through additional screening steps because their credentials are no longer trusted.
It really seems like your trying very hard to justify some past behavior here.
- eecsninja 9y agoDude I've been out of school for almost a decade. I didn't major in CS. And the only stuff I learned that was useful for my future career was through a project class where it was impossible to cheat or otherwise bullshit your way to an A. Most of my programming skills were learned from coding games in my spare time.
- learc83 9y agoWhat does any of that have to do with what I said?