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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: What is a student?
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:29:22 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-01-07T11:29:22-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6afa631f-b89c-4998-ba44-99ae68452c6c@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uep1n.15398$Sh7.2645@newsfe25.iad

Hyman Rosen wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Yes, everyone is a student, but not everyone has a
>> school assignment to do :)
>
> A favored tactic to bait the lazy is to provide a
> program which does what they want, but uses language
> techniques far beyond what a student at that level
> would know. If they're dumb enough to submit this as
> they're homework, the instructor will catch it and
> call them out (provided the instructor himself isn't
> lazy too).

Another one is to ask them to explain their high-level requirements
and the background behind their question.

--
Ludovic Brenta.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07  3:02 What is a student? Leslie
2010-01-07 14:15 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-07 17:25 ` Anh Vo
2010-01-07 17:46   ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-01-07 17:55     ` Hyman Rosen
2010-01-07 19:29       ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2010-01-07 17:57     ` Hyman Rosen
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