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Sheiber says there is no evidence that CS50 experiences more incidents of cheating than other large courses. Students may not think twice about sharing problem set answers in large Core classes where up to a dozen different TFs separately evaluate written assignments...
...fact, he says widespread knowledge of the course's plagiarism software might actually ensure that fewer students get a little help from their friends on CS50 assignments...
...CS50 is one of only a handful of courses at Harvard where every assignment is submitted electronically and scanned by a custom-developed plagiarism detection program...
Undergraduate TF Leslie S. P. Yeh '00, who works closely with her CS50 students, calls the program "invisible...
Some students claim the cheating software is a CS50 urban legend--insisting that TFs use the threat of the program alone to encourage original work...