ItsJustACoincidenceProfessor

"It's just a coincidence professor!" is a plagiarism checker for source code. It uses the Wagner–Fischer algorithm to precisely and accurately determine percentage similarity of two given strings. We also cross reference common sites like GitHub and Stackoverflow, for potential cheating.

Papers used for this project

• A Comparison of Similarity Techniques for Detecting Source Code Plagiarism
• Levenshtein Distance Calculation Using Dynamic Programming for Source Code Plagiarism Checking
• Plagiarism Detection Using the Levenshtein Distance and Smith-Waterman Algorithm

Libraries used for this project

• RSyntaxTextArea
• JSON.simple
• Junit