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When I copy code from somewhere on the Internet, I include a comment with a link to the original. I encourage my team to do the same. Plagiarism should be frowned upon.

[-] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 30 points 1 day ago

When I was in college, in a network programming class we had a semester final coding assignment. I forget now what all it was supposed to do, but I do recall my friend in the same class spent a week of free time writing his. I forgot about the assignment completely until he asked me how it was going for me a few hours before it was due. With no other options, I simply punched in a example program from the textbook, replaced about 10 lines in the middle and tested.

It seemed to work. So, I very clearly labeled which code was mine, and which was copied, so that I technically wasn't doing a plagiarism. Then I turned it in, and hoped for the best. I got a 100 on it. My friend was pissed, because he only got a 99.

[-] ttyybb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago

It’s not called plagiarism, it’s called inheritance

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

It’s all from one person posting on stackoverflow.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

this comment has been closed as a duplicate

nvm I figured it out

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

All the code has already been written, and building software is about piecing together stack overflow posts.

Discuss.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

If the inventor of the web didn’t want to copy things he wouldn’t have made it plaintext.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You don't need to plagiarize code, just use software libraries.

I feel like half the "timesavings" of AI could have been done better by someone making a code library that is actually organized.

Not even well organized... Just organized.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That would be plagiarism in an academic / essay writing sense. I can't write an essay and just insert the entirety of book written by someone else in the middle of it.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sure you can. You just have to properly cite it.

[-] karashta@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

Ah yes. The bootstrap paradox code. Self created. Blessed be.

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