Plagiarism Detector (PD) is a software that was created in response to an alarming incident of academic dishonesty in an entry-level computer science course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The software developed in this project is meant to detect similarities in code and present the results to instructors in a meaningful way. PD was built in Java using JavaFX with the intention of checking assignments in the Racket programming language. Racket is a general purpose programming language that was selected for the introductory CS classes at WPI due to its intuitive function templates and high-level features. PD used a syntax-tree based similarity detector that was custom built for Racket’s unique syntax structure. We found that our algorithm worked respectably well at finding cases of possible cheating.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Puente-Perez, Marcelino
• Olson, Matthew
• Hurlbut-Coke, Matthew

Subject

• Computing
• Project-Based Learning
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042822-153151
• 65731

Keyword

• Plagiarism
• Academic Dishonesty
• Racket
• Cheating

Advisor

• Beck, Joseph E.

Year

• 2022

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education

Date created

• 2022-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright