u/LooWillRueThisDay wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
> I've watched a lot of recordings and you can kind of tell when someone is cheating or otherwise, long pauses doing nothing at all for example, or copy pasting partial code and working with it like you don't understand etc... You can identify suspicious stuff through copy paste,
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Probably not no. Examples:
1. copy paste a large block of code that doesn't follow conventions of other code
2. copy paste a block of code to a blank pad
3. copy paste large amount of code and change variable names and remove comments (or change comments)
4. copy paste code that has comments referencing where it's from (some sources do this and they paste "From X" at the end, and then the person removes that.
Now all of this sounds silly but in a 90 min session and you do this once by accident and then "undo" to make it go away... won't work, they can see that!