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Comment Re:Much easier to catch (Score 1) 694

Instead, cheaters reorder their code, add a bunch of comments, rename variables, change indentation and so on.

Some do. Others do what what two of our students did, who I will call Tom and Jerry. The project involved writing some unit tests, and Tom had written a test for a function that took a string as its argument. For the test string, Tom used his name. When Jerry copied Tom's code verbatim, he changed a few things around, but made sure not to mess with the test code. It was pretty easy to figure out who Jerry got his project from. I couldn't believe it.

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