Comment Re:Availability of help (Score 1) 979
Thats bull. There are still postings on the newsgroups until 5am. Also, if you wait til 5am and don't know exactly what you are doing, you are a fool to have procrastinated.
What more do you need when they give you: (1) Lecture notes with code examples in it (2) Approved resources such as the text book (3) TAs who often put in as many as 20 hours per week of office hours (4) Program info files that often walk you through the whole thing. (5) Newgroups to discuss the problems on
The truth is that every one who goes to GT takes the first CS class, like it or not. It used to be that CS majors and everyone else took the same first CS class (this is not the case anymore as of this semester). So we had whole dorms of freshman dorms all taking the same classes pretty much: calculus, CS, and english. Many have no initial skills in CS, possibly no desire to take CS, and many struggle. But the fact that whole halls (very often) calaborate is unacceptable.
People do cheat in the first two CS classes - all the time. I want them to be caught before I end up doing a group project with them in my group.
Also, getting caught for academic dishonesty isn't the end of the world. My close friend got caught for decompiling tetris so he could look at it for help in writing his own. He ended up getting an F in the class and had to do some community service hours. It did not ruin his life. He just had to take it again.
