It is not wise to become a homework solution service, and that is more likely to happen when complete answers to what are obviously homework questions are handed out on a plate.Originally Posted by userxbw
That is true, but then sometimes it can be difficult to do things substantially differently after seeing a complete solution to a problem, in which case the student would be faced with the dilemma of choosing between plagiarism (minor modifications are insufficient to excuse this) or to continue to try finding a different (and possibly inferior) solution to the homework problem.Originally Posted by userxbw
Hence, feel free to post solutions to similiar problems, e.g., a variation of the problem posed such that the student has to understand the solution to come up with a similiar solution to the original problem, or perhaps a simplified version of the original problem to demonstrate some critical idea in the problem solving method. It may also help if you explained in prose the ideas behind your solution to the alternative problem.Originally Posted by userxbw