... The kicker to me is that as a developer if I am having trouble doing something, I ask the internet to see if someone else has already solved it. If I find the solution on stack exchange, I'm not going to rework the solution just so I can claim that I did the work. I'm probably not going to change a thing other than tweaking things to fit whatever the rest of my code looks like. I will re-write anything I find on something like stack exchange because it helps you remember what you did and you think about how what you're typing out works, but its essentially copied and pasted from someone else's work. I don't know if this counts as "cheating" or something in the classroom - though I certainly wouldn't have an entire application with reworked answers from stack exchange - but its a skill worth teaching to cs students. Heck, people sell books with code snippets intended to ease development for pete's sake, I can't see why using a java cookbook should be penalized in the classroom.