Resumes are dangerous

Re:Resumes are dangerous by zmanji on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:34PM (#3911314)

Why? Some prof worked hard to create the starter code for many assignments so the student could focus on a few key parts. After the student completes the few key parts of the assignment it is obvious it is a derivative work of the professor.

Also posting the solution online would obviously make it difficult to use for the next year and I don't think it is productive to make a professor remake an assignment every year when the could be focusing on refining lecture content.

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Re:Resumes are dangerous by apsurd on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:51PM (#3911429)

At the risk of sounding difficult, all work is derivative and I think that's a beautiful thing, not a thing meant to be haggled over and fussed about.

But I do get the point of your second paragraph. Ideally students go to class for the sake of learning, so it doesn't make sense to blatantly cheat, but such is not often the case IRL.

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Re:Resumes are dangerous by jonny_eh on Monday April 30, 2012 @05:26PM (#3911600)

It'd be great if the prof made the starter code available on github and the student's code was committed to a fork. It'd be quite easy to tell then who's work is whom's.

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