[vignesh_vs_in]

Well yours may be the typical scenario. I had the slightly opposite experience.

I built Warehouse management system with RFID. i bought a RFID reader and few cards, connected with serial port to PC and basically had a checkout check-in system in place (for the curious, Java is the language, sadly i lost the original source code :( still have the RFID reader tough ).

On the demo day the professor was so happy with my project, the first question e asked was "From where did u buy this project?" . He was very reluctant to believe that projects of such scope can be built by students. If the professors are so sure the projects are copied, why do they even grade them?.

Ya and most of the students in my class bought projects(C Compiler, Steganography etc,) for few thousand rupees and got equally good marks (Hey , i got the top mark ;) .

[ishansharma]

Great work there.

I've had same experience when in my first year, I made a GUI app with Win32 API while others were giving command line stuff. Teacher clearly said, "This is too complex, even I will need 2-3 days to understand it. Did you buy it?"

I have to make fourth year project soon, hope I get same reaction!

[nijk]

Highest compliment I ever got from a teacher: "You got then highest score of everyone who didn't cheat."

I think that knowing that he knew that they cheated and I didn't, that meant something that lasted more than that the artificial confines of that one class.