Plagiarizing code for computer programming assignments

Plagiarism is a serious issue in education, computer science in particular. It is the deadly combination of a confused student with ease and availability of sample source code, that facilitates such behaviour. I already wrote on the issue of Plagiarism in Education, examining the motives, means, and consequences. Today I am forced to bring up [...]

Rolling with 9rules – best weblogs in the world

“9rules is a community of the best weblogs in the world on a variety of topics.” Technorati.com counted over 55 million blogs, so how does 9rules figure out what’s the best from the rest? Well they are sort of a private club with some serious quality control.

Every once in a while 9rules would open up [...]

CompSci does Functional Programming

CompSci.ca’s guru wtd has been contributing a plethora of O’Caml and Haskell tutorials, and now those resources have been collected into their own Functional Programming forum.
In short, Functional Programming is a paradigm, or style, that focuses on mathematical functions. It is a fundamentally different way of thinking about programming, and offers a refreshing change from [...]