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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
People that cheated in that manner would have way more studying to come time for the final exam. When you only do one of 8 assignments for the year, you don't know much come the end of the course. If you do them yourself, you can study quite a bit less because you learned it throughout the year doing assignments.
It is also technically cheating in some courses to look at your friends assignment because you are stuck on a problem. You could either not get the answer, not learn how to do it, and lose the marks like you are supposed to, or you could look at your friends, figure out how it's done, get the marks on your assignment. I stand by the fact you won't do as well in the working world if you are the type of person who chooses the first option.
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I fully stand by this. Engineering should teach you the principles of how to understand problems and assess methods of solving them. In industry, you RARELY are required to figure something out on your own, if you do, you're more stupid. I routinely worked on assignments in a group setting. We explained it to each other and the act of teaching it amongst ourselves re-enforced the principles.
I even showed Dr. Smith your old lab (he called it crap because you hadn't documented the code line by line) that I had as a road map for the 68k course. But every once in a while someone asks to borrow your assignment and copies it verbatim. I shared my assignments all the time, but this one time I got a zero because my friend was too lazy to change his wording. I wasn't too impressed.