Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning 979
The Washington Post has an article today on a Georgia Tech student who almost flunked his intro to comp sci course for just discussing his homework with someone else. Note that no one including the faculty accused him of actually copying any code from anyone. However, the "honor code" at Georgia Tech "forbids its introductory computer science students from seeking any help from other students on their homework." The faculty recorded part of his violation on the forms as "He was trying to learn it." This is something that high school seniors might want to keep in mind when selecting which university to attend.
College isn't for learning... (Score:4, Funny)
It must be true, popular culture says so.
what? (Score:2, Funny)
If schools ban learning, then I guess the "fun factor" is what College is all about.
Well Shit (Score:3, Funny)
Who turns someone in for something like this anyway?
If I were this guy... (Score:4, Funny)
To whom it may concern,
I would like to apologize for my behavior. It was wrong and immoral. I suppose, because of my youth, that I thought it would be justifiable to learn. I now see otherwise, and hope to discontinue this behavior for the rest of my career.
I thought that it might be a good dodge to spend some of my time in first year learning, and that it might be an investment towards my GPA for me to acquire knowledge from other human beings. Oh well, I guess we all learn our lessons of life somehow. I understand that in discussing in an academic forum setting is wrong and I promise that for the endurement of my University career, I will absolve any attempt at communicating with my peers, as it seems to only decrement my academic standpoint and tarnish the reputation of the University, as well as compromising the institution of Education on the whole.
I promise I will avoid learning for the rest of my college career and rely only on myself and my own experiences with the natural environment to do so. Furthermore, I resolve to lock myself in my room for the remainder of the semester in hopes that social interaction will not tempt me into deteriorating my Computer Studies goals. As well, I will avoid going to lectures and tutorials, as well as any open labs, since the professors and TAs may accidentally teach me something, in which case I will compromise the goals the University seems to have set forth.
Sincerely,
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Glad to know open academic forums (What Universities are intended to be) are still just that.
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:4, Funny)
Or maybe it was just me.
typo! (Score:3, Funny)
"Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Larnin'"?
I copied my way to a CS degree (Score:1, Funny)
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:2, Funny)
Way to find a chisel on a tablet.
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My college computer experience (Score:4, Funny)
For the bonehead award, Programming I was basically just Pascal on personal computers. Well, I had gotten into "trouble" for not commenting my source code. So, for my final program, I wrote it in Pascal, compiled, disassembled, rewrote the assembler code to Pascal inline assembly statements, and lined up the original Pascal as the assembly inline comments. My prof wasn't amused.
But, on the other end, I took another programming course which was supposed to be COBOL, c, and FORTRAN. The first day, the prof said that we will not need our FORTRAN book and would not write any FORTRAN programs or be tested on FORTRAN. However, we were instructed to learn FORTRAN on our own. Well, almost no one kept their FORTRAN book or even bothered learning FORTRAN. I was lucky enough to have already learned most FORTRAN working on physics stuff. Our final program was to write a source converter in c to convert FORTRAN programs to c. Not only did we have to know FORTRAN, but we had to KNOW FORTRAN!
Re:What *wouldn't* be a violation? (Score:1, Funny)
Dad: Ok, Where are your punch cards?
Re:Before we condemn the school... (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new around here..
Re:Georgia is a WIDE state! (Score:2, Funny)
My theory: first posters, goatse trolls and wide posters are all quadraplegics on disability. This would explain why they never type more than a few words because they have to blink in a pre-arranged sequence to get their letters translated to the screen. For this reason, they typically only do copy/paste because it's much easier on the eyes and gives their nursemaids more time to clean the feces out of their shorts.
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:2, Funny)
Uh, no; it's for drinking, partying, abusing illegal substances and possibly having casual sex.
What college did you go to, and do they have a graduate program?
Re:Unsurprising (Score:2, Funny)
They actually have a dedicated professor for teaching you about static methods and variables?
Re:typo! (Score:3, Funny)
I'll allow "larnin'", as it might be a regional colloquialism to the GA-Tech area.
However, as a born and bred Mississippi redneck, I can unequivocably state that the correct spelling/pronunciation is "book larnin'".
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Re:Uh, you forgot... (Score:1, Funny)
Boy, I should hope so! Can you imagine how much it would suck to be payed in Cowboyneal? The exchange rate of Cowboyneals/Dollar can't be very good, and I don't know what you would do with more than a couple of them to keep under the sink and do menial labor for you. You'd be better off being paid in peanuts.
Re:What *wouldn't* be a violation? (Score:1, Funny)
Dad: Ask your mother.
Re: College isn't for learning... (Score:2, Funny)
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Like... homework assignments that look just like someone else's?
Re:Unsurprising (Score:5, Funny)
"Would you get any partial credit for building the bridge upside down?"
No, you'd get a career in management.
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh come now, I'm sure there's plenty of casual sex going on. In fact, I'd go so far as to say there's more casual sex at Georgia Tech than just about any other school in Georgia.
Having a partner is not a prerequisit for casual sex at any tech school (I'm sure whoever operates the coin laundry is making tons of money from cleaning all those socks and towels), and being in Georgia, I know there's plenty of livestock walking around a little bow-legged.
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Perfumed Turds, etc. (Score:3, Funny)
More seriously, I think the above post is likely much closer to the truth than the "nuanaced" slashdot summary. But that's just my opinion.
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:4, Funny)
Joke seen scratched into a table in the GT library: Georgia Tech is like a pretty girl: you can't wait to get in, but 9 months later, you wish you hadn't.
Re:College isn't for learning... (Score:2, Funny)
In Black & White, one of the first quest is to help these sails with their trip. You get them wood, wheat and meat. Well for meat I gave them a sheep. They respond:
"Sheeps good for many things, and Its a long voyage." or something like that.
Poor, Poor Sheep.