Educational Technology

June 17, 2017

As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:36 am

By JESS BIDGOOD and JEREMY B. MERRILL, NY Times

College students have flooded into computer science courses across the country, recognizing them as an entree to coveted jobs at companies like Facebook and Google, not to mention the big prize: a start-up worth millions. The exploding interest in these courses, though, has coincided with an undesirable side effect: a spate of high-tech collegiate plagiarism. Students have been caught borrowing computer code from their friends or cribbing it from the internet. “There’s a lot of discussion about it, both inside a department as well as across the field,” said Randy H. Katz, a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of California, Berkeley, who discovered in one year that about 100 of his roughly 700 students in one class had violated the course policy on collaborating or copying code.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/us/computer-science-cheating.html

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