Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
dc*****@connx.com wrote:
A google search will turn up source code for both of his assignments
(and a few thousand hits each at least).
But it does require a bit of understanding to pick a program that
actually solves the problem; picking an essay that is at least *about*
King Lear is not too difficult.
Back in the day, we would trudge on down to the Academic Computer
Center and crack open TAOCP (Knuth) volume <1/2/3as needed, and
translate his algorithm from MIX into whatever we need, put in a
citation and turn it in. {I even wrote my own MIX emulator so that I
could be sure I had it right.} One has to wonder deeply if there has
ever been a computer science problem posed that has not already been
solved by Knuth back in the 1970's.
Which goes to show -- when you tell where you found it, it's research.
When you just snag it and turn it in, it's plagiarism.
;-)
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