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Plagiarism in programming assignments

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M. Joy,

M. LuckAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Education, Volume 42, Issue 2

Pages 129 - 133

https://doi.org/10.1109/13.762946

Published: 01 May 1999 Publication History

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The assessment of programming courses is usually carried out by means of programming assignments. Since it is simple to copy and edit computer programs, however, there will always be a temptation among some students following such courses to copy and modify the work of others. As the number of students in these courses is often high, it can be very difficult to detect this plagiarism. The authors have developed a package which will allow programming assignments to be submitted online, and which includes software to assist in detecting possible instances of plagiarism. In this paper, they discuss the concerns that motivated this work, describe the developed software, tailoring the software to different requirements and finally consider its implications for large group teaching

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IEEE Transactions on Education Volume 42, Issue 2

May 1999

59 pages

ISSN:0018-9359

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Sağlam THahner SSchmid LBurger ERoychoudhury APaiva AAbreu RStorey MGama KSiegmund J(2024)Automated Detection of AI-Obfuscated Plagiarism in Modeling AssignmentsProceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training10.1145/3639474.3640084(297-308)Online publication date: 14-Apr-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639474.3640084
Sağlam TBrödel MSchmid LHahner SRoychoudhury APaiva AAbreu RStorey M(2024)Detecting Automatic Software Plagiarism via Token Sequence NormalizationProceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering10.1145/3597503.3639192(1-13)Online publication date: 20-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597503.3639192
Karnalim OSimon Chivers W(2023)Gamification to Help Inform Students About Programming Plagiarism and CollusionIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2023.324389316:5(708-721)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TLT.2023.3243893
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Sağlam THahner SWittler JKühn TKühn TSousa V(2022)Token-based plagiarism detection for metamodelsProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings10.1145/3550356.3556508(138-141)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2022
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