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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: Homework problems (was Re: Help on problem needed!)
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <meskes.713709771@ulysses> <1992Aug24.151440.24767@sics.se> <20966@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:13:59 GMT
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- debray@cs.arizona.edu (Saumya K. Debray) writes:
-
- >torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
- >> I think it's high time to get rid of this "no homework" nonsense. Anybody
- >> with any sense should ask the net for solutions to boring idiotic home
- >> work. With a bit of luck somebody will supply the answer.
- >
- >I disagree vehemently, for the following reasons:
- >
- >1. Resources. Solutions to "boring idiotic homework problems" are unlikely
- > to be of burning interest to the vast majority of people working
- > on/with logic programming languages. I see little sense in using a
- > lot of computing and network resources worldwide to support this kind
- > of stuff.
-
- For the minute amount of traffic we're considering, the people-time is far
- more important than the machine resources.
-
- >2. SNR. Between four or five technical newsgroups, I have enough articles
- > to wade through every morning that it takes up a fair amount of time
- > already. I see little to be gained from increasing the volume and
- > decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio further.
-
- Quite fair enough. What about creating a new newsgroup for elementary-level
- Prolog questions? Something like "comp.prolog.questions", or
- "comp.prolog.novices". Alternatively it could be in the "alt" hierarchy,
- which would also mean that (1) would nopt be a problem.
-
- >3. Ethics. In my opinion, anyone who (actively or passively) aids and abets
- > an act of plagiarism is just as guilty of cheating as the person who
- > actually tries to pass off someone else's work as his own (in my
- > classes, it's standard policy that all such "participants in academic
- > dishonesty" get a failing grade for the entire course immediately and
- > without exception). The point does not change just because the medium
- > has changed from pencil and paper to something more high tech.
-
- Obviously no-one here would condone plaigiarism (I hope!); the point was,
- however, that elementary-level questions often get a somewhat hostile
- response here.
-
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- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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