To all my good ES26 students...

Okay... here's the big thing. There were people who submitted MY code back to me and claimed it as THEIR work. Now, without pause or apology, I want to ask: HOW STUPID IS THAT? Also, HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK I AM? Do you really think me to be caught unawares that what you submitted is actually not mine — nyet, YOURS? What's even more insulting is you attempt to demo the program to me and think I will not know that you did not do it yourself. Oh, one more thing: you try to make up excuses for your program not being perfect, when I did it in about a half-hour just to be able to provide those who worked at the lab something to base their work on.

Let's forget the fact that there was one person who copied the source code from the desktop of one of the units on Fedora. He's apologetic enough to admit to his/her fault. What I don't understand is the gall of these people to submit MY work back to ME. Now turning the tables, you might be the brainless sap that you may have thought I am. Seriously. That's my indention style. My flawed quick escape code writing. My comment format. My choice variables. And all of you would make it appear that the code that I made was yours? Come on. You're smarter than that, I think. You got into UP. Or was that a farce, too?

Now, I even bet that people will act adversarial to this message. Why? Because they'd get insulted in turn when in all actuality my intelligence was insulted first.

Anywho (yes, that's not a real word if you'd like to think of me as a stupid redneck hick), here's the new deal. If you did the linear regression problem with sorting, searching, and writing capability, YOU MAY BE EXEMPT FROM THE DEMO if the total score for your two exams will amount to at least a minimum amount to be determined later (I'm thinking 80% of the aggregate perfect scores). Otherwise, you have to catch me during the next two weeks either on a Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday either at the Department of Computer Science or at a café to be specified later on. (It's no secret to my students that I like to work out — "work out" being my term for working outside the office.) You are no longer expected to do the Mob Wars scenario. I will not punish the offending parties, but you get a reprieve from the task. So in a way, you might want to thank them.

Those who haven't submitted anything yet, you may work on the first problem (linear regression) and the third problem, but that wouldn't be a bonus item anymore.  You are free to format the last problem's data file any which way you like.

Now my best students: those who had the audacity to submit MY program back to me. Let's forget about what you did and invalidate MY own program as a submission. (I hope I don't have to remind you that academic dishonesty, plagiarism being the least, merits a one-year suspension at the least.) After allowing everyone to collaborate freely with ANYONE in three different sections, former students, Computer Science majors, even pay professional programmers to do your work for you; AND YOU STILL DID WHAT YOU DID, you have to make the Mob Wars program from scratch. No aid from me anymore. I know I promised structures and functions, but what use will that be for just a small group as yours? You will still have to demo your program. Remember that during the demo, I will ask you to explain random lines of code, make you compile and run the program, and I will make modifications to the code then you will have to predict the effect.

Deadlines? To those who passed Problem 1 already: no more deadline for files! To those who are still going to submit Problem 1 and 3: 25 March 2009, 11.59p. To my beloved students who will be doing the Mob Wars scenario: you're free to submit any time until the fourth of April and demo before then, too.

I hope you realize I'm not a victim of plagiarism here. It's not me who had the raw end of a good deal.

...and just in case you didn't know that the work you plagiarized was mine, check if you used the pinili variable, indention for each level by two spaces, and used #define three times. I know some of those who submitted my work back to me wouldn't even be able to explain #define because I didn't teach that to people I think wouldn't need it.