Plagiarism detection software

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From: David McWha
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:00

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My apologies if this is an inappropriate place to post this.

I am a tutor for a university computer science course and believe we have some
incidence of plagiarism in computer programming assignments. Does anyone know
of any software which will compare electronically submitted assignments for
similarities to assist in detecting this cheating?

I have a few scripts I have written, but believe a much better job could be
done. The platform we are using is Linux.

TIA

David

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From: jadm@cs.waikato.ac.nz (David McWha)
Subject: Plagiarism detection software
Date: 1998/02/05
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