Detection of plagiarism in computer programming assignments

Authors:
Dulal C. Kar
Affiliations:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Plagiarism in programming assignments in computer science courses is on the rise, mainly due to recent innovation in computer technology which has made copying, sharing, and modifying a document effortless. Detecting plagiarism in computer programs through manual inspection process is very error-prone, since a plagiarist can easily produce a program with a whole different look through some clever text substitution and rearrangement of statements. In addition, the detection process is very time-consuming. This paper introduces and discusses different techniques of automatic screening and detection of plagiarism that can be used as aids to detect and deter plagiarism in computer programming courses. The paper also presents a simple screening and detection scheme based on statistical techniques.