Kim
was given a programming assessment task early in the trimester. Now there are
three assignments due in the same week and she has left this coding assignment
until the just before the deadline. Kim is panicking because her program has
errors and just won’t run. She finds an example of a program on the internet
that completes a similar task. She copies and pastes a short piece of this code
into her program, and it successfully runs. Should Kim ………..

Question

Answer

not worry about
acknowledging the source of the code she found on the internet because it
doesn’t include the programmer’s/author’s name.

Answer

follow the
general principles in the Harvard style of referencing by citing the title of
the program the code was copied from and include the homepage URL in her
reference list.

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not
include a citation because it was only a small piece of code she used.

Answer

submit the
program and hope that her tutor doesn’t check the originality of her code.

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