The New York Times. Bay Area Blog recently took a look at the issue of plagiarism among students in computer science classes. The widespread availability of code on the Internet makes it easy for computer science students to find solutions to common assignments. Computer science professors retaliate by devising increasingly sophisticated automated systems to detect instances of code plagiarism. The NYT. cites a recent incident where a Stanford student was suspended and resigned from his position as student body vice president after he was caught doing the copypasta routine. According to the San Jose Mercury News. , roughly 22 percent of Stanford's honor code violations relate to plagiarism in computer science. Some readers might remember that we looked at the other side of this issue. last year when a student at San Jose University was disciplined for publishing the source code of his own solutions to class assignments. His professor contended that making the source code
Code copypasta increasingly common in CS education
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