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Eric the Red · Jun 8th, 2006, 6:46 PM

I need your help on this one. I just don't know what to do or if I should even do anything about it.

At my high school class we were given a final assignment about a week ago. It's worth 30% of our total mark and here's how it goes: You pick something that you would like to do and you do it. I'm making tetris, another person is making BlackJack and a few others are making Role Playing Games.

Here's my situation, we are given 3 weeks to do this assignment and out of the entire class (12 people) they're are only 3 people trully working on the assignment. The rest are just playing games in class (helicopter game), (tetris) and (ball shooter) not that it matters. However, there's a time to play and there's a time to work. These people are lazzy, and are just going to game websites and printing off the code as their own.

Knowing all the effort / hard work that I put into my assignment that they missed, would you let the teacher know? I think that it's their problem and it's all going to come back to them later in life "So I'd say no.". On the other hand, they did no work and therefore, deserve a mark of "0".

It's a really hard to make a call here. Does anyone have a system that will make it harder for my classmates to rip code off the internet that's worked in the past for you?

Jun 8th, 2006, 6:46 PM	#1
Eric the Red Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 214 Rep Power: 0	Plagiarizing code I need your help on this one. I just don't know what to do or if I should even do anything about it. At my high school class we were given a final assignment about a week ago. It's worth 30% of our total mark and here's how it goes: You pick something that you would like to do and you do it. I'm making tetris, another person is making BlackJack and a few others are making Role Playing Games. Here's my situation, we are given 3 weeks to do this assignment and out of the entire class (12 people) they're are only 3 people trully working on the assignment. The rest are just playing games in class (helicopter game), (tetris) and (ball shooter) not that it matters. However, there's a time to play and there's a time to work. These people are lazzy, and are just going to game websites and printing off the code as their own. Knowing all the effort / hard work that I put into my assignment that they missed, would you let the teacher know? I think that it's their problem and it's all going to come back to them later in life "So I'd say no.". On the other hand, they did no work and therefore, deserve a mark of "0". It's a really hard to make a call here. Does anyone have a system that will make it harder for my classmates to rip code off the internet that's worked in the past for you? __________________ Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.