re: Just watched some dude get busted for cheating on a final

This guy sounds like a complete tard. Seriously going the calculator route when you aren't allowed one, and also having the cheat sheet in bright yellow? Absolute amateur and an idiot. He deserves the expulsion just for being that stupid.

The most difficult classes were always the ones where the professor allowed and encouraged people to bring their note books, cheat sheets, calculators, and textbooks to the test.

I had a class in grad school like that. I somehow rode the curve to an A, but those tests would really shake your confidence. I bombed the first test in that class and spent the rest of the semester chasing it. You had no choice but to become proficient with the course material. Several people were weeded out that semester and I'm pretty sure it was that class that ruined them.

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Must not be a CM major.

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It's all we did. In the last materials class, ole girl cried in front the class because on a test with short answers, everyone had the same sentences written out right and wrong. It was hilarious , we had about 8 TA's in there for the final though

Yeah, 3 of my 5 classes this semester allowed "cheat sheets". Even with these, I was hardly scratching out a B on the test and I was more stressed out than if I had memorized the material. Now I'm done for good so it is what it is.

I never cheated in college but did in high school a couple of times. The key is not to be a dumb arse about it.

Just read what that class was about.



Dude destroyed his career over a class that he will never need in his life.

Prereq.: CSC 2259. Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 2280 or EE 3750 or EE 3755. Computer arithmetic, design of high-speed adders and multipliers, CPU concepts, instruction fetching and decoding, hardwired control, microprogramming control, main memory, I/O organization, assembly language programming techniques, CPU instruction sets and addressing modes.

Assembly Language?? My Assembly Instructor at LSU many years ago gave us all one piece of advice.. "NEVER EVER take a job where you have to use assembly language"

You know the type. You can do all the required homework, practice assignments, and notes from your research and cases (and have them all with you for the exams).....and that professor would still find a way to challenge you. It took a lot of effort on his part to pull that off now that I think about it.

That's the kind of course that forces you to be proficient with the subject matter to survive. It requires a creative professor who enjoys his work. I didn't really start seeing that until higher level undergrad courses and grad school courses.

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So basically a jr/sr level CSC class and he is cheating? Read the outline -- if you don't have most of that down before you take the class you need to change majors/minors. I'm not sure if this is the same class I had to take, but I didn't try very hard and passed easily when I took it.

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Looks like it was the Assembly language class at LSU. Quite possibly the most useless class in the entire department.

I have on a couple occasions learned more in courses I made a C in than some courses I made an A in purely based on who the instructor was. There was an Operating Systems course everyone told me to take over the summer at LSU. I did and made an easy A and literally paid for my A. The instructor had a midterm and final only with 50 T or F questions. Then proceeded to give out assignments that counted for Bonus points on those tests. Then gave us bonus points for attendance. On my final I had to basically get 10 questions right out of 50 to get an A in the course and I never learned anything.

College can be a BS waste of time and money to get a piece of paper if you let it.

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pssh, just get there early and write lightly on your desk. once you are done just rub your arm over it and erase it.

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Yep

Damn that blows, never cheated during college/grad school but saw many people do it. College I let people cheat off me, grad school I said frick no. Still cant believe I had someone ask me for help during a test.