How to Avoid Plagiarism for Computer Codes....forstudents

Wed May 21 08:15:26 EDT 2014

I must disagree... the use of other people's work should be cited including coding. Here is a nice academic integrity handbook from MIT:

https://integrity.mit.edu/writing-code

There are times when citing is not necessary - such as factual common knowledge - for example, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Neither would you cite say a for loop for iterating through and array. 

Attribution should be given where it is due even for those small snippets of code (without which your code would be useless).

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On May 21, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Forrest, Stuart <sforrest at BCGOV.NET> wrote:

> Yes the whole point of modern programming is code reuse.
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> On May 21, 2014, at 6:31 AM, "Riley Childs" <riley at TFSGEO.COM<mailto:riley at TFSGEO.COM>> wrote:
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> +1
> Most of the time coding takes bits and pieces, sometimes even entire files! Do you mean citing your sources per se?
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> Joyce, there's no concept of plagiarism in writing software that I'm aware of.
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> Did you mean a different kind of programming code?
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> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Joyce Wong <joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca<mailto:joyce.wong at langara.bc.ca>> wrote:
> Hi everyone
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> Apologies for any duplication.
> 
> Does anyone have an online guide on avoiding plagiarism specifically on programming codes for students?  Our Computer Science Department is interested in developing one and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
> I have already found the page from University Pennsylvania.
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> Thank you
> Joyce
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