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I understand that most of the cheating is done in the first cs course, but why on God's earth would you sign up for a major notoriously difficult if cheating can be a problem and you are the cheating type. I mean- If you have to cheat during the CS course, I can very easily see you never be a good programmer.

A CS course isn't even like the real world programming jobs.

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I would guess that most cheaters don't know they're the cheating type until the moment they cheat. Also, one of the points made in the article is that most people attribute the honor code violations largely to non-CS majors. The mindset is probably that they never want to be a programmer, and all they want is a good grade and the general ed requirement out of the way.

I go to stanford, and intro CS is required or strongly recommended in most majors (all engineering, hard science, and even social sciences)... so a pretty large fraction of the student body goes through the class- most prospective cs majors have already placed into higher level classes.

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