Georgia Tech student receives an 'I' and possible 'F' for discussing assignment.
All the available evidence indicates the school has done its best to instill fear in any student who might think of even raising the issue of CS 1321 homework with a classmate.
And:
He wanted to learn. That was his big mistake. The university officials who filled in the violation form were forced by the Georgia Tech rules to stray so far from their obligation as educators that they seriously listed part of the freshman's offense in exactly these words: "He was trying to learn it."
... And it is getting worse. A brand-new rule says a computer science student is wrong to try to seek answers to questions ANYWHERE other than from course materials or Georgia Tech staff. Rooting around in old books in the library, checking the Internet, calling your cousin at Caltech--all are forbidden.
Some of the MetaFilter thread comments say that it's good and the structure of the course means it's unlikely for code to be similar, but also that the strictness isn't present in their upper-level courses. Mainly I'd say that's because the only people taking the upper-level courses are the people who understand what's going on. At UTC there are occasionally people we wonder how ever got as far in the program as they got, and David (graduated a few semesters go) has his story about protecting his group's Intro to OS code from would-be pilferers.
