Comment by godelski
2 years ago
> If they wanted to verify the students actually developed a working program, they could have easily asked for the Pi's to be returned along with the source code.
Wait, is your argument honestly "it's not cheating because they just trusted the students"?
There's a huge difference between demoing something as "this is what we did" vs "we didn't quite get there, but this is what we're envisioning."
Edit: You all are responding very weirdly. The cheating is because you're presenting "something" that is not that thing. Put a dog in a dress and call it a pretty woman and I'll call you a conman.
No, the argument is, "It's not cheating because it wasn't a programming assignment."
> Put a dog in a dress and call it a pretty woman and I'll call you a conman.
Well if you're the TA and you're unwilling/too lazy to call out the conman, I call you an accomplice! Also, since when was the ideal scientific rigour ever build on interpersonal trust?
No, it’s not cheating because the ask was “something” not “some program”
Which is only not cheating if it was presented as not a program and a fellow project mate sending out an email.
In US colleges at least (only because that’s where I have personal experience…not because I believe standards are any higher or lower here), this is cheating if they led their professor to believe that it was indeed the raspberry pi sending out an email rather than someone at the back of the class.
While it’s minimal (and some might consider it below the bar), they did successfully use the pi to read an external moisture sensor and print the results to the screen.
They did use the hardware provided, and did use software to accomplish a goal. If the teacher just wanted to test what problem solving skills the students walked in, I’d say that’s a fair result.
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You're assuming the objective was to develop a functioning program on the Pi.
But what if the Pi was only ever meant as a story-telling device to get the students thinking about the kinds of things computer programs can do?
Sure, some of students would be able tell a story by building a functioning program, but dvsfish simply found another way to tell theirs.
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