My friend was a student marker for a 1st year programming class. He had to mark programs based on successfully running as intended and he had to mark the code too. He caught six people with the exact same code... they all forgot to change the name of the coder in the comments in the code.
I later worked with the guy who coded the program. It was stolen from him when he left his computer in the lab to go to the washroom. He wasn't smart enough to lock the computer when he left. One guy stole the code, handed it to the other four and they all handed it in as their own. They weren't smart enough to look at the code and see the original coder's name in the comments, or the coder's whitty remarks in the comments either.
I don't know what became of the cheaters, but the guy who had it stolen from got a zero on that project. He says that he never noticed anybody missing from class so they likely didn't get into big trouble.
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