Questions tagged [homework]
Relating to the discussion and controversy around questions that are explicitly stated as, presumed, or suspected to be homework questions (i.e. those given to a student in a formal course of study). (Copied from https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/homework/info.)
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Retitling well-received questions with "homework" in title
The homework tag is blacklisted and when you review a question with a title that contains "homework" you get a warning popup:
Many similarly phrased questions have received feedback like ...
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Can I create an assignment based on contributing to Stack Overflow?
I teach a computer science course at a university, and I was considering creating a class assignment centered around contributing to Stack Overflow. Students would create accounts on Stack Overflow ...
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A Stack Overflow user said using this site is like cheating - How so when it's my own question?
On a previous meta question of mine, a user left this comment:
"we don't have many places to go to ask questions and get help." - I have a B.S. in Computer Science. You can always contact ...
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Would posting an answer with a Base64-encoded hint be ethically ok?
From time to time, we see those questions with phrases such as "ASAP", "Urgent", etc.
Most of the time it seems to come from students, who messed up in the course. If they followed ...
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Comments about the Satisfaction Survey [closed]
I filled out the satisfaction survey, but my answers are not going to be particularly useful, because the problems I have with Stack Overflow are mostly things that are not under the site's control. ...
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To close, or not to close, that is the homework question
Consider the following question, which is representative of a certain class of questions that get posted with some frequency on Stack Overflow.
How to find length of array in C++?
I want to write a ...
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I've rethought my question about a homework assignment—why can't I get it deleted?
I asked a question related to a course I was taking. I followed all the Stack Overflow rules, and I got a useful answer. But it's coming to the end of the [grading period here], and my professor has ...
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New question close option [duplicate]
Nowadays, many questions on Stack Overflow are nothing but a homework dump. But there is no proper option to close such questions. These are the existing close options:
Duplicate - This question has ...
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Is it acceptable to provide links to a "do my homework for money" site?
I just came across a question which was an obvious "homework dump". Someone commented (appropriately) to the effect that we don't do peoples' homework here. But they also added a link to a ...
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Is this a new form of homework abuse / help-vampirism?
A user posted this question seeking help with debugging. I answered, and shortly after when I looked at the page I saw that the user had deleted their account.
A little later I noticed that there was ...
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Should there be a Stack Exchange site dedicted to "My homework to write a linked-list does not work" questions
I swear I see two or three nearly identical C or C++ questions about broken hand-written linked list implementations every day. The ways they are broken are all the same three or four varieties.
If ...
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How do I flag lazy homework questions? [duplicate]
There's already a question on this topic here: What should I flag homework/tell me what this does questions?. Unfortunately it doesn't have an answer.
There's another question about how to ask good ...
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What is the protocol about answering homework assignments? [duplicate]
I recently saw a question about a homework assignment and the OP had tried his best to show the code he had below the assignment text. But he clearly did not understand the assignment and he got ...
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What should be done when OP replaced his MCVE with the text of his homework question?
In this question, the poster asks what I think is a genuine question with some explanation and a short snippet triggering a bunch of answers. Then, OP erased his snippet and replaced it with a good ...
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When did SO turn from "A site for professional and enthusiast programmers" to a "Help me with my school works" site?
I have been active on this site for many years, yet I have never seen the level of programming questions so rudimentary as it has been in the last 12 months. Yeah sure, there has always been beginners ...
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