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> School teaches us that reusing someone elses code is cheating No, school doesn't teach this. School just teaches that trivializing an assignment by using oth
by username90 7y ago
> School teaches us that reusing someone elses code is cheating
No, school doesn't teach this. School just teaches that trivializing an assignment by using others code is cheating, since the point of school is to learn how things work and not learn how to find, evaluate and use libraries.
You could argue that school should better teach library usage, but that is a very hard topic to teach, what would the assignments look like? Would it be a case problem? Like you get a list of current dependencies, an overview of your team members skills, the task you are supposed to solve and then you go out looking for actual libraries and get graded based on how well your choice aligns with the professors?
- lonelappde 7y agoA good school would give each student a novel problem to solve for their exam grade, instead of wasting brainpower on redundant exercises.
- jyounker 7y agoThat's called graduate school, and because it's so hard to do the teacher can only take a handful of students every decade.
- klyrs 7y agoWhose brainpower is cheaper: the professor generating 30-300 novel, unique programming challenges at an appropriate (and identical) difficultly level per course per semester, or the student who's paying to be educated?