My S took this class and says that Malan makes it crystal clear on the first day (and it’s in the syllabus) that ALL code will be run through an algorithm and checked for plagiarism. Says that it’s inexcusable that students knowingly copied code and submitted it. According to him, it’s common practice for students to go onto stack overflow and get the answers to problem sets – the savvy ones modify the code and the lazy ones copy, paste, and submit.
The problem may be that too many students take this class who get in way over their heads and plagiarize out of desperation. S says he remembers a fair number of students in the class who had no clue how to code and little ability to learn.