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From: "Dennis W. Butler" <dbutler@calpoly.edu>
Subject: Re: Jumping Ahead
Date: 1997/02/20
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Speaking as a faculty member...I wonder why you don't address this
question to your teacher? After all, what do the opinions of the
newsgroup readers matter in this situation? I'm sure (I hope) that your
teacher will be glad to commend your self-directed learning or explain
why you shouldn't do what you did, whichever is appropriate.

BTW, you should thank your lucky stars your school is giving you
experience in an appropriate programming language.

Dennis Butler
Computer Science Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

John M. Greer wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'd like your opinion on this before the assignment is due . . .
> We didn't learn this in class yet, but I learned it on my own and used
> it.  Now I'm proud of my program, but I'm worried.  Do you think my lab
> instructor will be annoyed that I skipped a few chapters ahead?  (I'm not
> doing this for brownie points, just something I wanted to do.)
> 
> Just wondering, my $.02 . . .
>         (and interested to see the results of this discussion.  Feel free
> to post replies to the newsgroup; I'll see them :-)
> 
> John Greer