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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: What is a student?
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:29:22 -0800 (PST)
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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.