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.
Again, it’s easy. Did they present it as that? Or did they fake stuff to make it appear to the professor that they got the hardware and software to do more than it did?
Have you ever been to the Olympics? Because I think you could medal in gymnastics.
>> It was our first comp sci class ever
>> asked to create "something"
It doesn't matter what that "something" was if you are claiming that you made "something" else. The lie is not necessarily the final result, it is the telling of the final result. The context of the whole thread is also about deceit because rtfa.
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.
Again, it’s easy. Did they present it as that? Or did they fake stuff to make it appear to the professor that they got the hardware and software to do more than it did?
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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.
Have you ever been to the Olympics? Because I think you could medal in gymnastics.
>> It was our first comp sci class ever
>> asked to create "something"
It doesn't matter what that "something" was if you are claiming that you made "something" else. The lie is not necessarily the final result, it is the telling of the final result. The context of the whole thread is also about deceit because rtfa.