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I don't know, I tutored an introductory course on data science in Python last semester, and yeah copilot would have been able to answer most of the problems. Bu
by captainmuon 4y ago
I don't know, I tutored an introductory course on data science in Python last semester, and yeah copilot would have been able to answer most of the problems. But students would have been able to copypaste them from somewhere else anyway. If you want to test them, have them explain what they did, and why they wrote it this way and not another way. But personally, I believe that people are at the university to learn learning, and to learn independence, and if they really want to cheat then it is their fault. You spend a lot of time (and in some places money) to be here, so you might as well be honest and learn. The degree itself is not as helpful as one might think. It is the stuff you learn for the degree that helps you later on.
But on the other hand, I found copilot useful as a tutor. When somebody asked about an API, I didn't have to akwardly search the documentation, I fired up VS code and have copilot suggest something (without the students seeing it of course ;-)).