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From: sjsobol@nstc.com (Steve Sobol)
Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation)
Date: 1996/06/13
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Date: 1996-06-13T00:00:00+00:00
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shane@wonk.demon.co.uk (Shane Badham)@wonk.demon.co.uk (Shane Badham)
wrote:

>>Why don't schools design projects/labs that build upon themselves.  Every one 
>>of my projects could have been done without doing the preceding projects.  
>>When we implemented Abstract Data Types (ADT), they gave us the .def files and 

>Thats good input.  We did something similar on our Ada programming assignments.
> However, the tutors did not have us do all the bottom up packages.  Instead
>they
>_provided_ many of the packages, pre-written.  We then used these in our
>application and wrote some ourselves.  This was the older Object based Ada,
>similar to Modula-2 in concept.

I think that in concept, this is an excellent, excellent idea (being a
CompSci student myself). Problem is, if someone transfers into your CS
department, are you going to make them take all the classes over
again? or drop them in the middle?