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11 min
Dr. Sarah Chen
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1 month ago
This is the workflow Dr. Sarah Chen uses every week to catch plagiarism that survives renaming, reordering, and refactoring. It layers token normalization, AST comparison, and a smart review queue, then walks through what to look for in a diff before talking to a student.
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14 min
Emily Watson
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1 month ago
Web code plagiarism is distinct from peer copying, and standard similarity tools miss it. This guide breaks down how to detect code lifted from Stack Overflow, GitHub, and tutorials, with a practical grading workflow that catches it without drowning TAs in false flags.
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10 min
Alex Petrov
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1 month ago
Quoted Google searches used to be the standard way to catch a Stack Overflow lift. I tracked the shift across tools, fingerprints, and live web corpora, and why modern checks need to pair source matching with AI detection. The short version: the web changed the question from "who copied whom" to "where did this code come from."
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11 min
Emily Watson
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1 month ago
A practical walkthrough for CS instructors and TAs: wire Codequiry's peer similarity and AI detection into a GitHub Actions workflow, get CSV results on every commit, and triage suspicious submissions in under a minute each.
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8 min
Alex Petrov
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1 month ago
A logistics company needed to know whether a contractor's 14,000-line Python service was original before paying the final invoice. Token-based fingerprinting showed exactly how much had been lifted from an open source repo and rewritten just enough to hide. What the team learned about normalization, thresholds, and the limits of similarity scoring applies to any company that accepts outside code.
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10 min
Alex Petrov
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1 month ago
As a bootcamp instructor and open-source maintainer, I've closed hundreds of license-related pull requests. Most were copy-paste fixes where someone dropped a Stack Overflow function into a GPL project. This walks through what actually triggers license tickets, which scanners catch what, and where source similarity tools save you from silent compliance failures.
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10 min
Alex Petrov
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1 month ago
A direct walkthrough of a Python code plagiarism audit across three bootcamp cohorts. Learn which thresholds actually caught copied code, why starter-code exclusion matters, and how to stack web and AI detection into one honest review pass.
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8 min
Rachel Foster
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1 month ago
AI code detectors are producing false positives on the most ordinary submissions in CS1: code that looks the same because the assignment required it. This reported piece examines the data, the workflow changes instructors are making, and why combining AI detection with structural similarity reduces the error rate.
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9 min
James Okafor
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1 month ago
Line diffs collapse when students rename variables, reorder functions, and extract methods. Here's how token fingerprints and AST normalization catch refactored copies, and how to triage hundreds of similarity reports without drowning in false positives.
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9 min
Alex Petrov
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1 month ago
A bootcamp instructor explains how token-level perplexity works as an AI code signal, what thresholds we actually use in Java review, and why a single statistical score is never enough on its own.
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6 min
Rachel Foster
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1 month ago
Set up an automated code plagiarism detection pipeline in GitHub Actions using Codequiry's REST API. Follow precise steps to write a workflow YAML and a Python script that submits student code, receives similarity scores, flags suspicious pushes, and optionally detects AI-generated code. Includes threshold tuning, result interpretation, and false positive handling.
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12 min
Priya Sharma
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1 month ago
A three-semester analysis of 4,100 CS1 submissions shows why a 70% similarity score means different things in Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript. I break down percentile thresholds, boilerplate effects, false positives, and how to pair similarity checks with AI detection.