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Are academic students getting help from fellow students, a tutor, a teacher or their parents also cheaters?

Do you consider tennis players with a coach also cheaters? The player still has to play the match by themselves.

Are developers who ask for help from a colleague also cheaters in your eyes?




No, definitely not (at least on the latter two; my school did say take home assignments had to be done independently, if graded. People did get help on the ungraded assignments, though I didn't).

I wondered if bootcamps/online were more like in the adult world (where it's basically always OK to get help) or like traditional degrees (where everything graded has to be done on your own unless a team project). You are saying it is more the former, I suppose.

I just wanted to know if everyone did it. Like are most people in bootcamps friends or spouses or children of working programmers? or are there also people doing this "out of nowhere" like at community college?




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