Source code plagiarism

Learning programming languages and developing software is important part of curricula at many educational institutions. Directly connected to that is a peer-to-peer sharing of program´s source codes which is not always allowed. The article discusses the problem of plagiarism, especially the source code plagiarism and presents an excerpt of the results of the survey among students at Faculty of Education and Faculty of Computer and Information Science at University of Ljubljana and among students at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at University of Maribor. Results are revealing alarming situation. In addition, advices for the teachers to avoid the plagiarism as much as possible are presented.