Plagiarism by Student Programmers

Many forms of academic dishonesty are found in programming courses. This article looks at plagiarism of programs: when students copy all or part of a program from some source and submit the copy as their own work. This includes students who collaborate and submit similar work. Such plagiarism is felt to be common, though the true extent is hard to assess. Quoting from [12]: ``As with Nessie of Loch Ness there does not seem to be a clear picture of this beast, only a variety of eyewitness reports.''

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