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In today’s university life, teachers are often confronted
with plagiarism. A special form of plagiarism is source
code plagiarism typically found in programming courses at
universities and schools. Detecting or even preventing source code
plagiarism is by no means a trivial task. Therefore, this paper
explains and discusses different methods that can be used to
prevent and detect source code plagiarism. The second part of
this paper is focused on automatic tools that assist in detecting
plagiarism. Finally, an approach is presented which can be used
to detect source code plagiarism in PLC (programmable logic
controller) programs.
