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Joy, Mike and Luck, Michael (Michael M.) (1998) Plagiarism in programming assignments. University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Department of Computer Science Research Report). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
There number of students following programming courses is steadily increasing at the same time as access to computers and networks is readily available. There is a significant minority of students who -- for a variety of reasons -- take advantage of the available technology and illicitly copy other students' programming assignments and attempt to disguise their deception. Software that can help tutors to detect plagiarism is therefore of immense assistance in detecting -- and so helping to prevent -- such abuse. We introduce a novel approach to designing such software which performs well in comparison to sophisticated software available elsewhere, yet is simple both in concept an in implementation. Our approach reduces substantially the effort needed to upgrade to new programming languages, and has been tested on a variety of classes and several different programming languages.
Item Type: | Report | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 (Please use QA76 Electronic Computers. Computer Science) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Plagiarism -- Great Britain, Computer programming -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain, Educational technology, Computer-assisted instruction, Cheating (Education) -- Prevention -- Great Britain, Computer programs | ||||
Series Name: | Department of Computer Science Research Report | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science | ||||
Official Date: | June 1998 | ||||
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Number: | Number 345 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
DOI: | CS-RR-345 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Computer Science | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
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