While I was doing my undergrad in CS, there was a grad student who wrote software that said if a student had copied another student's work. Too bad two of us had similar coding styles and thought processes, so it always flagged our assignments, even though we didn't code together, and it was obvious just by looking at the code. I wouldn't have much faith in this software either. There is something to be said for human intuition.
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While I was doing my undergrad in CS, there was a grad student who wrote software that said if a student had copied another student's work. Too bad two of us had similar coding styles and thought processes, so it always flagged our assignments, even though we didn't code together, and it was obvious just by looking at the code. I wouldn't have much faith in this software either. There is something to be said for human intuition.