Deviant Wrote:Ouch thats tough, but it sounds like he didnt ask you to do it, you did it for him, you should have known the risks, at least ask him to acknowledge that you helped him with it a bit, that way he isnt getting full credit, but you're not being a total jerk ot your friend.
Totally wrong, on all accounts. That is NOT how schools see it, and all of them require you to take an oath of intellectual honesty before they let you in class. Friends don't steal from friends. You haven't screwed him over, you gave him time to get his act together, (though that was also wrong because you shouldn't have done his assignment.) He's screwed you over, because not only is he getting an A he clearly doesn't deserve, now he's looking for a resume buff using YOUR intellectual property (IP.) That's totally out of bounds.
I cheated in school once in my life, as a junior in high school. I was VERY deeply ashamed afterwards, and I considered it a rough lesson and never did it again, though I wasn't caught that one time I did it. Integrity is not an abstract characteristic that was made up by blowhard priests, rabbis and ministers. You flush THAT down the toilet, and you'll end up in a bad place. It's hard to quantify the effects of integrity, but people I am close to trust me very much precisely because I won't turn on them to make a buck. In that incident I was young and stupid; and really, like 10 years afterwards I still majorly cringe thinking about it. Like three years after that incident I was a sophomore in college, my teacher in a class left the class for like 40 minutes and EVERYONE began to cheat on the test we were taking. Someone tried to get me to answer a question. I turned around, looked her in the eyes and said "no." And completed the test knowing I had gotten one right. An essay based on that got me accepted to Georgetown university as a transfer. Georgetown transfers program had a 9% admission rate, among mostly excellent students, so this was not a small matter.
Give this person a chance to withdraw the plagiarized work from the museum. Explain to him that it is very bad to put his name on something he didn't do. If he refuses, go to his teacher right away. Explain the process that it took to make the program and what you know about the program, (which is everything about it.) Your teacher will (herself or with other teachers,) then test his ability to create similar programs, and your ability to do so. Obviously, you will succeed and he will fail. After that, at the very least he will fail the assignment, and (more likely) he will get an F in the whole class. That F will be there when he applies to college or whatever. If he keeps having friends do his assignments, that will happen anyway. Teachers nowadays have search engines as good as google specifically made to check if a work was stolen. There is a chance they'll punish YOU for having done his assignment for him. If you don't want that risk you can contact the teacher anonymously to point out the plagiarism. I personally don't know much about that part because I've never agreed to do anyone's homework for them.
Plagiarism is, put simply, the worst thing possible in artistic and scholastic endeavors. In those endeavors it's like treason in the workings of national security, because it poisons everything art and schoolwork stands for. Some people learn the hard way, so give him a chance to withdraw. But if he doesn't... he really deserves what's coming to him. He isn't taking help on an assignment anymore, he's an IP thief. Somebody once stole my Maple Story mesos. I actually consider that theft a lesser offense than if the guy would have stolen my IP, which to me personally is my livelihood.