Re: Ada Student Needs Help..

[Steve Jones - JON <jon@hp755d2.eurocontrol.fr>]

je@bton.ac.uk (John English) writes:

> 
> Larry Kilgallen (kilgallen@eisner.decus.org) wrote:
> : In article <5bdl4i$ffl@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>, jmb36@bton.ac.uk (baker) writes:
> : > I just want a genral solution, hopefully avoiding arrays (cos I'm not very
> : > good with them) Can I use Record types?
> 
> : If you aren't very good with arrays, that might be a good reason to
> : use them for your project, since the goal is learning rather than
> : actually mixing drinks.
> 
> Well said, Larry, you took the words out of my mouth.
> 
> : However, I might be wrong about that, since I am not in the
> : Education business.
> 
> You're not wrong -- not wrong at all!

Added to this the student has now raised the issue that if he doesn't
use arrays he is admitting defeat. Next project... a generic matrix
multiplication packge for NxN(xN etc :) arrays.

Reminds me of a student who disagreed with my fathers marking, my father
admitted he was wrong in that case but pointed out 5 other places
where he really should have docked marks so the student ended up with
plus a few and minus more.


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