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Demian Sanchez '00 took CS50, the introductory computer science course, with Maya. He recounts a meeting with the Ad Board just before Maya left school: "I was just trying to give Maya a hand with a difficult class and she was just trying to get her assignment working. In the administration's view, I ended up helping her too much, which was unfortunate because we both had good intentions in this collaboration...
...know if it's a myth," says computer science concentrator Toshi J. Clark '03, who took CS50 last semester. "[But] it gives incentive to do it by yourself...
...looks for any similarities, and there are different parts to the problem sets," says a student in Pforzheimer House who was required to withdraw from Harvard for a year after the Ad Board decided he had plagiarized a portion of a CS50 assignment...
Sheiber also says he sometimes feels that CS50 students get the short end of the educational stick because the methods for catching cases of plagiarism are far more sophisticated than in any other course...
...Since CS50 assignments are submitted as disks, it is easy for TFs to plug each one into a similarity comparison program...