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Every year, students in Computer Science 50: "Introduction to Computer Science" (CS50) debate whether the course's instructors really use a special program to weed out cheaters and plagiarists...
...always have students who say to me, 'Do you really have a software that checks for cheating?'" says Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Sheiber, who teaches CS50. "They think we're making this up to put the fear of God in them...
Over the last few years, CS50 has gained a reputation for sending a disproportionate number of students to the Administrative Board to answer charges of academic dishonesty...
...students who have been subject to disciplinary proceedings by the Ad Board, a surprisingly high percentage have come from CS50," Sheiber says. "But it's not because CS50 students are cheating more. It's just that we're more effective in detecting cheating...
...have to admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that...