IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India 642
An anonymous reader writes "Students studying computing in the UK and US are outsourcing their university coursework to graduates in India and Romania. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It's causing a major headache for lecturers who say it is almost impossible to detect." The irony, of course, is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
Re:Just deserts... (Score:5, Funny)
Read the Copyright (Score:5, Funny)
Indubitably (Score:5, Funny)
My karma's gone way up ever since I started outsourcing my comments.
i can do it faster and better than any indian (Score:4, Funny)
I did that and it worked out great. (Score:2, Funny)
I interviewed a couple of grads and one said he'd outsource the work to India. I hired him on the spot because that's the correct answer! Because, I can't find any excellent IT folks here so I have to go overseas.
Why yes! I recruit for IBM, Intel, Bank of America, and many many other large corporations.
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Dissertation Topic (Score:4, Funny)
Thank you for ruining my idea! Please come again.
Re:Indubitably (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Sir,
We will have your obligatory Futurama reference done by next Tuesday. Please transfer the funds to the aforementioned offshore bank account.
This Slashdot article... (Score:5, Funny)
(Unfortunately so is the moderation on the comments)
Re:Just deserts... (Score:5, Funny)
What I don't understand is how could you possibly hand in a postgraduate dissertation which you didn't write....
I agree, however, my Ph. D. adviser once offered to write my dissertation for $3,000, which at the time (being a poor student), was a ridiculous amount of money (and immoral to boot).
In retrospect, I should've taken a loan and paid him to do it, it would've been easier and far more ethical than actually writing it myself.
Re:An excellent argument... (Score:5, Funny)
Anyway, can you imagine handwritten assignments in Comp sci? Have you seen the handwriting of the average CS geek?
My wierd liberal-arty background puts me in the top tier of CS handwriting (erratic but occasionally legible) but the fast majority of my peers fall into the average bracket (incomprehensible scrawl), and there are plenty who sink to the darkest depths (febrile 2 year old, epileptic with dyslexia) from whence no meaning can be derived.
If it weren't for keyboards, none of us would be able to convey our ideas in written form.
Re:Pathetic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Clever but self defeating (Score:5, Funny)
I saw that in real life. A friend on my dorm floor who had to take a token CS class for his major decided to "outsource" the lab assignments to me. The first week he asked me to do the assignment, I said "Sure, here you go", and whipped out the "Hello World" in 20 seconds. The next week I did his insertion sort in 2 minutes. This went on for a couple more weeks.
About halfway through the semester, when he got something annoying like a balanced red-black tree, I said "Sorry, I'm too busy to tackle that one right now". Of course, by this point he had learned jack shit by not doing any of the work. He didn't finish the rest of the assignments, bombed the tests, and ended up having to take the course again the next semester. In the end it was a big hit on his GPA, he'd wasted many hours of redundant lecture time, and he had to eventually do all the work on his own anyway.
Re:let them do it I say (Score:5, Funny)
When I was an undergrad in CS four years back, there were girls on my course offering sex in return for completing their programming assignments. I never took one of them up on this offer. To this day I have no idea why....
Re:let them do it I say (Score:5, Funny)
Lack of a clean user interface?
Re:let them do it I say (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just deserts... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm confused, did something change? Historically they went into management.
Re:let them do it I say (Score:5, Funny)
maybe you do aswell... don't let the facial hair fool you.
Re:Thank minimum wage (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Clever but self defeating (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just deserts... (Score:2, Funny)
My high school math teacher announced, on the first day of class, that he would be willing to take a bribe to give an 'A' to any student.
His price? Significantly more than the present value of all his future earnings for the rest of his life.
I'm not sure if the lesson was one of consequences (you can lose your job for cheating) or math (what is the P.V. of a series of payments?).
Money? (Score:3, Funny)
You know... those little paper thingies with numbers and pictures of people on them, that you give at the store and they let you take things out of the store?
Re:An excellent argument... (Score:5, Funny)
It was that way where I was (in the US); doesn't help that I'm a wordy bastard either. I used to resort to writing in script because my cursive is more legible than the bastard hybrid of print and cursive I normally write in.
That's relative though. I had a prof complain about the cursive, so I switched to my "default" handwriting, and then he complained about that, despite my habit of writing the uppercase and lowercase alphabet on the top of the first page of every blue book, as a decryption key. The only thing my writing has going for it is that my default font size is about 16pt, so at least it's big.
Finally, the mysterious "hidden" step is revealed! (Score:1, Funny)
1)Complete your own programming assignment
2)Purchase outsourced assignment
3)Approach girl 'A'
4)Have sex
5)Give girl 'A' outsourced assignment
6)Approach girl 'B'
7)Have sex
8)Give girl 'B' same outsourced assignment
9)Repeat
That's got PROFIT!!! written all over it.
Better yet, when they get caught handing in the same assignment and point the finger at you, you can just say, "I didn't write that. Look, the style is completely different!"
Re:Minimum wage and other laws (Score:1, Funny)
Hey everybody! Gather round! This guy read a BOOK!!!! An old one. By a famous author!
Re:Minimum wage and other laws (Score:2, Funny)