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CS146 Code Issues

May 26, 2009 by Kyle Brady
Tags: Cheating, CS146, Plagiarism, SJSU
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Due to a recent spat with Dr. Beeson, my CS146 Professor from the just-ended semester, all the PDF files posted with the code solutions for the semester have been temporarily removed due to a copyright claim.  I will be reworking these files into my own work, and reposting them in the near future.

This is part of a still-ongoing issue of "Cheating" and "Plagiarism", which I won't get into the details of now.  Essentially, he wanted all the code removed, since he considered it cheating, and I refused based on the standards, principles, and definitions as defined by SJSU.  He decided to not fail me for the semester, but has claimed to expressly forbid what I've been doing for the last 6 months for all future classes...

The battle for the right to post code that I've written, after the due date, is in progress.  I've gone to the Department Chair for a top-down mandate against making such requirements of students, but I will go to the top as needed.

Posting programming homework solutions publicly after the due date is no different than students sharing graded homework solutions before a final - should that be considered cheating as well?

I think not.

Much more detail will come later as this issue develops.

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