Questions tagged [homework]
The homework tag has no usage guidance.
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Should we allow extremely low-effort homework questions?
I found this question which appears to be a copy-paste of a homework problem.
Certain sites such as Physics say that homework questions must focus on the underlying concepts as opposed to the specific ...
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A question was posted from a colleague's final exam. How do we determine who posted it?
I found a question on this site that looks like it was taken from a colleague's final exam. The timing is suspicious:
The account has one question and was created today.
The question was posted an ...
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Consideration for COVID-caused newbies
Because of the corona virus outbreak, many schools have responded by either closing entirely or sending the students away and allowing them to continue classes remotely. As a result, we may be seeing ...
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Homework Service [duplicate]
I am a student of Computer Science, however for the most part I'm self teaching myself CS(Due to being in a not very good school, which is not internationally competitive or standard. Not to say I don'...
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How do I ask a good homework question?
I'm doing some computer science homework and I need help. How should I ask my question here?
The existing discussions about homework tend to center around how to answer them and how to moderate them. ...
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computer contest problems
The question Proof of correctness for the greedy solution of uva10249 The Grand Dinner is presently on hold. It is definitely not self contained, so I understand it needs editing.
My question ...
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Why isn't CS functioning as MathExchange or StackOverflow?
I understand that all the forums serve different purposes, and they have their own moderators, rules and policies. But CS seems completely different to me, with respect to all the other forums I have ...
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Should we have a custom close reason for homework assignment dumps?
Since the beginning of the north hemisphere term, we've seen a sharp increase in questions that consist solely of a dump of a homework assignment, where there is no question, only “solve this”.
Our ...
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Should we downvote solution request?
This question is motivated by this comment.
Recently I see more an more questions which explicitly asks for solution to given class problems. This happens mostly before exams period. It looks like ...
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The return of the homework question
It has become a ritual: three times a semester (around 2nd week, midterms and finals) there is a flow of simple, homework-like questions (mostly in the field of automata theory; US education system is ...
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What to do if someone asks my assignment question?
It seems that a student has posted a question I have given my students as an assignment on this site.
Is there a policy regarding this?
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Homework policy
The accepted answer on this question is our homework policy, adopted by a community poll.
The poll rules and outcome are retained below for historical purposes.
Rules
Below, you will find three ...
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Towards a homework policy
The purpose of this thread is to determine what our homework policy should be, if any.
In previous discussions, we saw:
Will homework questions be allowed? → Homework questions are allowed, but we ...
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What should the homework tag mean?
The outcome of the homework tag discussion is not clear so far: there is a slight majority in favor of having a homework tag, but no agreement as to what the tag means. The meanings I've seen proposed ...
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Just-a-hint tag
This relates to the following discussion:
Homework tag discussion
After talking to Gilles in chat about possible solutions to the homework tag problem. The tag just-a-hint was suggested. The purpose ...
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Homework tag discussion
This discussion started in my other question "Will Homework Questions Be Allowed?".
Should we allow the tag? It seems that some of our sister sites (Programmers, stackoverflow) have not allowed the ...
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Will homework questions be allowed?
Since the current FAQs say this site is for students as well as professionals, what will the policy on homework be?
What are the guidelines that a homework question should follow if it is to be asked?...
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