Chan Lee Meng

Malaysia

Writer

Seems like a lot more trouble than it's worth. If you're caught doing it, you'll get a failing grade at the very least, or you may even get expelled.

Most programmers will tell you that it is harder to figure out someone else's code than to write your own.

Also, outsourcing is no magic bullet, and programmers in India (or wherever) are just as likely to produce buggy, unoptimised code.

If you're really that lazy and unwilling to learn how to code, then you would not be able to tell whether the outsourcee's code is good or bad. So if (when) the code crashes during an inopportune moment, say, in the middle of your thesis presentation, you would not be able to fix the problem, nor even explain what it happenning.