blue_chameleon said:
What was that about? What happened man?
I had a rough semester with friends. In one course, a very close friend who was my partner pulled out the day before an assignment (worth 15%) which was also less than 2 weeks before the final project worth 30%.
I also did a first year SENG course. When the 3rd and final assignment was due, I had a few other things due so I completed it ~2 weeks before that and submitted it. It was some of my best work, I was very proud.
A few weeks later during stuvac, I get an email from the lecturer asking me if I could come in and see him about it. I still had some big assignments due so I was in already so went and saw him that day. I get there and he tells me that there are some similarities between my work and another student's. He said their name, but cause of the accent I didn't recognise it at first. He wanted to know if I had collaborated with another student and shared ideas, but the thing is I didn't even know anyone in the course, I hardly even went to any of the lec's or tut's. When he repeated the name, I recognised it as someone who was a partner in a previous course and someone I had gotten to be good friends with.
I was shown the code of the two programs side by side, and they were close to identical. One of the classes was exactly the same, except the comments deleted and the name up the top changed, it was that blatantly copied. A lot of the other code was hacked up and jumbled around to look like it was changed.
In the end, it turned out to be a coincidence that I knew him. Before submitting I tested the program on the uni computers and didn't log off properly (fucking unix). He was the next one on and recognised the finished project. That code didn't have my name anywhere on it, so he stole it and ran with it.
Still, he's a cunt for doing it and I didn't see him in the exam, so hopefully he was hit hard by the whole thing. I ended up getting 95% for that and a D overall (I screwed up the exam it seems), so I'm over it.
