Adobe Acrobat Reader seems to have a very creative notion of "Save" where it actually means "Save As" despite also having a "Save As" menu. Given that I'm currently marking 50 odd files with the same name this is inevitably going to result in pain and woe.
That's pretty tough too. We only had take home assignments that involved code. The exams were mostly formalisms for algos, so maths, words and theory, if I recall correctly. The assignments were pretty fun. I definitely learned the most during those, by far.
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Yeah it's entirely possible that they "only" had to write down high level descriptions of algorithms etc. and I was sufficiently naive about programming at the time that I didn't understand the difference! (I didn't really learn to program until after my undergrad)
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Agreed that in general I would much rather people do take-home programming assignments than under time pressure. I've applied that principle to designing job interviews too!
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I do worry about plagiarised code though. A lot. Because pretty much everybody used to collude and/or outright cheat (obviously without giving credit). And in my experience, most of them have no idea they are breaking the rules, misrepresenting themselves, etc.
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I kinda think this is one of those cases where learning and evaluation are in tension. Students working on problems together is great! But for evaluation they kinda have to pretend that they didn't.
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Of course a lot of cheating isn't really students working together, but again that only happens at all because evaluation creates the incentive to cheat
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I really disagree. From personal and other experience, we know it's only in group students who help each other. That means out group people get lower marks by definition... And we know who in group people are in compsci, white, male, able bodied, etc.
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Yeah, that is a major problem, and I'm definitely not suggesting that the status quo is good, but I still think group work and collaboration are vital for learning. I don't know how to reconcile these issues.
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One of the reasons I left compsci was that being in the out group and having that rubbed in my face affected me. And significantly more so than any positive I ever got from group work. That was a decade plus ago though so perhaps change has been afoot?
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