OBSERVATIONS ON PLAGIARISM IN PROGRAMMING COURSES

Branko Kaučič, Dejan Sraka, Maja Ramšak, Marjan Krašna

2010

Abstract

Plagiarism is a well known problem of today's society. Widespread of the internet, ease of data exchange, Bologna reforms and individual circumstances influence on students to resort to plagiarism. Many courses in computer science where students have programming assignments suffer from so called source code plagiarism. Beside the internet, most common origins of solved assignments are fellow students from the same or the previous generation. In this paper the source code plagiarism is discussed. Main results from observing the plagiarism in programming assignments are given showing to which extent students plagiarize.

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Kaučič B., Sraka D., Ramšak M. and Krašna M. (2010). OBSERVATIONS ON PLAGIARISM IN PROGRAMMING COURSES . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-024-5, pages 181-184. DOI: 10.5220/0002800701810184


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@conference{csedu10,
author={Branko Kaučič and Dejan Sraka and Maja Ramšak and Marjan Krašna},
title={OBSERVATIONS ON PLAGIARISM IN PROGRAMMING COURSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={181-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002800701810184},
isbn={978-989-674-024-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - OBSERVATIONS ON PLAGIARISM IN PROGRAMMING COURSES
SN - 978-989-674-024-5
AU - Kaučič B.
AU - Sraka D.
AU - Ramšak M.
AU - Krašna M.
PY - 2010
SP - 181
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0002800701810184