students editing output

[Robert Skinner]

> This method is also used here at Penn State on both Unix systems and with
> VM/CMS.  All files are mailed to the instructor after they are debugged
> and tested.  The instructor then runs the programs using COMMON data for
> all of the runs.  If the program does not run using the data supplied by
> the instructor, the program is assumed to not work properly, since the
> user/data interface was defined by the instructor.
>
Just make sure that the instructor isn't using a very odd set of data.
As a student I would be concerned if I wasn't able to spot (and test
for) a special condition not explicitly mentioned in the homework
assignment.

I would expect that this would happen to more than one person for each
assignment, but you can imagine the case where a small percentage of
the student's programs bomb on the same special case.

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