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I TA'd and taught an intro to unix course at UCSC a couple of times. We found that repeatedly pointing out the tools that we'd use to catch duplication (grep/se
by Afton 17y ago
I TA'd and taught an intro to unix course at UCSC a couple of times. We found that repeatedly pointing out the tools that we'd use to catch duplication (grep/sed/awk), and show how they worked was the only thing that reduced the cheating count (which sat at around 10%, but dropped drammatically with repetitions of how we'd find cheaters).
tl;dr: "don't cheat, we'll find you" -> no effect on cheating. "These are the tools we'll use. Here's how they work" -> massive decrease in cheating.
- protomyth 17y agoit could be your demo showed them how to cheat and avoid being flagged by the tools :)
- Afton 17y agoHere's an example 1. write a sed script that strips out html-tags from arbitrary, well-formed HTML. It's pretty hard to fail to notice that 5 people used the one-liner from http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html, but can't explain what the hold-space is. Also hard to hide the fact that you used the hold space!