General Educational Resources from ACM Crossroads

This area of Crossroads is a collection of links to resources for students of computer science, management information systems, business information systems, and related fields.

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General Education

• Plagiarism
• Plagiarism Overview -- An overview of what plagiarism is and how to avoid/detect it.
• Turnitin.com -- A commercial product available to students and faculty to assist in preventing plagiarized papers.
• Objective Viewpoint column of Crossroads which teaches C++ and Java.
• Planet Source Code contains over 12,000 lines of C and C++ code ranging from one-line snippets to complete programs. Site includes a coding contest, hall of fame, and also areas for Visual Basic and Java.

High School students

Undergraduate students

Graduate students