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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Date: 1996/06/06 Message-ID: <4p5l51$lnt@blackice.winternet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158714021 references: <4o07o9$rfu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4o1vo3$p2a@news1.ni.net> <4oegks$ntn@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4p2jau$hkp@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4p3dad$mia@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <31B5B869.4797@mtm.syr.ge.com> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel organization: StarNet Communications, Inc newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:40:09 -0400, Steve Howard (howard@mtm.syr.ge.com) wrote: : Mike Fulton wrote: : : > Why don't schools design projects/labs that build upon themselves. Every one : : I was going to respond in very much the same way. I think this : progressive single project format would be much more valuable : than a set of disjoint small projects. The one class I learned the most in was a graphics class where we started with a program that implemented Bresenham's line algorithm, and moved on from there. Because each program built on the previous, (and because I was actually developing everything on an Amiga, but had to deliver on either a Mac or IBM), I conciously structured the design of everything from the start. It proved its worth when the instructor was replaced half-way through, and the new one changed the book, the formats for the data files we processed, etc. Of course, none of this had anything to do with the subject supposedly being taught. -- Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." -C.S. Lewis