From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John English Subject: Re: if statements Date: 2000/11/07 Message-ID: <3A081A12.5DE05CB3@bton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 690823062 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8tvbcq$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 973609513 5631 193.62.183.204 (7 Nov 2000 15:05:13 GMT) Organization: University of Brighton Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2000 15:05:13 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-07T15:05:13+00:00 List-Id: 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... :-( ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------