[IAEP] Great article on "Cheating in Computer Science"

Christoph Derndorfer e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Dec 29 16:04:43 EST 2010


Regardless of the counter views or comments or whatever that 15min video
was one of the most intense things I've seen in quite a while...

Thanks a lot for sharing that link!

Christoph

Am 29.12.2010 12:00, schrieb Rakesh Biswas:
> There is this other article seemingly providing a counter view until you
> read the comments section.
> http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/cheating-at-central-florida/
> 
> :-)
> 
> regards,
> 
> rakesh
> 
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     I just stumbled across this great article called "Cheating in Computer
>     Science" (http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1865908) which -
>     despite its title - isn't really all that much about cheating in CS but
>     rather an interesting reflection about our current education system in
>     general.
> 
>     I'm sure that when reading through the last paragraph of page 1 others
>     will also be strongly reminded of the great phrase Walter has used in
>     many of his presentation: "school is the only place where collaboration
>     is called cheating":-)
> 
>     Cheers
>     Christoph
> 
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