Comment by thewakalix
2 years ago
> It was our first comp sci class ever, we were given raspberry pi's. We had no coding experience or guidance, and were asked to create "something".
Garbage in, garbage out.
2 years ago
> It was our first comp sci class ever, we were given raspberry pi's. We had no coding experience or guidance, and were asked to create "something".
Garbage in, garbage out.
Wow this is such an awful excuse.
Here’s a whole list of projects intended for kids.
https://all3dp.com/2/best-raspberry-pi-projects-for-kids/
It includes building out a whole weather station which includes a humidity sensor as one of the many things it can do.
> Wow this is such an awful excuse.
yes for whomever organized such a curse and didn't give such guidance.
And besides curse asked for project to do something. It did. It printed lines. We can call the email gimmick, the marketeering strategy, making a turd look good.
Don't blame students for failure of whomever designed the curse.
So did they disclose that all the Pi did was printed lines?
The problem with the email isn’t it’s a gimmick etc. it’s that it appears quite clear that the students created the impression that it was the Pi doing it.
Your excuse that it’s difficult for first year college students with no coding experience to do something useful with the Rapberry Pi is disproven by the fact that there exist many extremely useful projects that kids with no coding experience can do, so college students almost certainly should be able to do without needing to resort to gimmicks.
So I don’t understand your complaints about the course. It’s clearly not too hard which is what you’re implying. And if you’re suggesting that the wording for the project wasn’t clear enough then that’s a huge claim to make considering you don’t know what the wording was.
Also, college (at least in the U.S.) was never about playing funny word games with the professor. There’s a level of maturity, reasonableness, and respect that is expected of the students. None of which is indicated in the response here.
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That's another issue going on: you using your cheating to belittle Google scan which again plays against any ethical ground you might still had
Creativity is a good thing, sad to see trust abused this way.
More like cheaters in, cheaters out.
It's plausible to me that they weren't provided with what they needed precisely because pervasive cheating allowed their predecessor classmates to complete the assignments.