Re: if statements

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> Certainly
> there exist other time schedules than Sept-Dec semesters, but I'd be
> surprised to hear of any that start at the beginning of November.

Our semesters have been retrofitted around the existing UK academic
year, so the first week of the course was October 9th. The question
originally posed was set at the end of week 2 of the course as part
of a set of questions with a submission deadline of the end of week
4 (Nov 3rd).

For the curious, our 1st semester cunningly breaks after 10 weeks
for a few weeks at Christmas, resumes for 3 weeks, stops for another
3 weeks (the "inter-semester gap") to allow time for marking, exams
and so on. Semester 2 then runs for 5 weeks before Easter, stops for
another 3 weeks, then starts up again for another 8 weeks. This is
what you get when you take a perfectly good working system of three
10-week terms and retrofit an American-inspired set of 2 semesters
within them... :-(

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