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...advice to Dartmouth administrators: Get over it. It would be easy to take a morally superior position--yes, copying answers is cheating. But let's climb down from our ivory tower for a minute to examine reality. Imagine that it's 3 a.m., the night before your big CS problem set is due. You check the website to see if anything has been posted on the discussion page, and behold, the professor has posted the solution to the problem! You check the solution and immediately recognize the flaw in your program that has been plaguing you all night...
...CS any more important a subject? Does it require that students adhere to its policies more strictly?" he asks, adding that there may be some legitimacy into looking in to expanding this methodology to other courses with problem sets...
While the similarity-checking software may not be widely used at Harvard, other colleges routinely use analogous programs to curb cheating in their CS departments...
...CS is different, because the capacity for copying is so large," he says...
...Lewis says CS classes vary in the amount of collaboration they permit. In his own class, for instance, students are allowed to collaborate in small groups, as long as the written work they submit is original...