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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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 Magness Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/18 Message-ID: <3A16D60F.E915E6CA@swbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 695172329 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <8ube4s$c2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A09416E.4C9BE1C8@cadwin.com> <8ubus7$pne$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0AB8A1.A4C42C90@acm.org> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: nnrp2.sbc.net 974574868 209.184.83.167 (Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:14:28 CST) Organization: N.O.Y.B. MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jmagness@swbell.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:14:28 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Or could it be that we now have a generation of students so accustomed to using the web as a research tool that they have not learned the use of a physical resource such as a book? John Marin David Condic wrote: > This looked so ridiculously simple a task that I began to wonder if maybe > someone out there isn't just jerking our collective chain. Some version of > "Lets see if I can start the customary homework chastisement thread..." > > OTOH, here in Palm Beach County, we seem to have a large number of people > who are TOO STUPID to figure out how to punch a ballot - or even ask for > help. So maybe the same people take programming classes and are TOO STUPID > to open the textbook which undoubtedly has at least one example of an "if" > statement in it somewhere. I'll bet there is even an index entry in the > back of the book that would take you right to the page. Maybe even a Table > Of Contents entry. Maybe even an example of a "Swap" program? That *is* a > rather popular example to put in textbooks, isn't it? > > Or have they dropped the requirement that you be able to read in order to > get into college? It is rather "exclusive" and not very "diverse" to > require literacy, isn't it? > > (Maybe I should attach a smiley here somewhere - but I'm not sure that I'm > joking. :-) > > MDC > > Ted Dennison wrote: > > > I don't think so. If I can be brutally honest here, anyone who has that > > much trouble figuring out how an "if" statement works will *never* be a > > programmer, Ada or otherwise. > > > > -- > ====================================================================== > Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ > Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m > Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey > and car keys to teenage boys." > > -- P. J. O'Rourke > ======================================================================