<story><title>Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course</title><url>http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>michael_dorfman</author><text>I think the gatekeepers of the institution feel that human knowledge is not increased when homework answers are published on the web, rendering the assignments obsolete for future instances of the course.</text></item><item><author>ionfish</author><text>Good for him. It&apos;s perverse for the gatekeepers of an institution supposedly dedicated to increasing human knowledge to attempt to restrain its dissemination in this fashion, and it&apos;s cheering to see the university backing the student here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mileszs</author><text>What is the chance they are doing anything new in a 100 level CS course?  Interesting, perhaps, but new?  Couldn&apos;t one find answers to most of the problems in 4+ languages with a single search?  I understand the argument, to an extent, that the student is simply lowering the barrier to cheating, but isn&apos;t it he really just lowering it from just above the knee to just below the knee?&lt;p&gt;It was easy to cheat 8 years ago (from what I remember), it&apos;s surely easier to cheat now, and it&apos;s certainly not because this one kid stood up for something in which he believes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course</title><url>http://www.kyle-brady.com/2009/06/10/how-i-won-a-copyfight/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>michael_dorfman</author><text>I think the gatekeepers of the institution feel that human knowledge is not increased when homework answers are published on the web, rendering the assignments obsolete for future instances of the course.</text></item><item><author>ionfish</author><text>Good for him. It&apos;s perverse for the gatekeepers of an institution supposedly dedicated to increasing human knowledge to attempt to restrain its dissemination in this fashion, and it&apos;s cheering to see the university backing the student here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>Professors should already be using new problems in each instance of the class. In particular, frats and other student societies often pass things down, and you don&apos;t want to advantage them. Trying to stop people from posting knowledge on the web that is already public is ineffective and unfair.</text></comment>