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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: 2000/11/08
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In article <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com>,
  Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote:

> I don't think most people take really the time to check if it
> is really a homework or not before answering like that

Nicolas, really, of *course* this was an assignment, that
was truly obvious (actually if you read the rest of the thread
then in fact we know the exact school and the due date!)

It really is very inappropriate for people to ask someone
on the net to do their homework for them. It happens
frequently, indeed, and sad to say, I have had several
students fail courses because they handed in work from
the net pretending it was their own.

It is reasonable to ask for pointers, but it is NOT appropriate
for students to ask for solutions, as was clearly the case
here. In fact we did the student a favor, if someone had
simply sent the solution off, and the student turned it in
as their own work, then they could *really* be in trouble!

The honest way for a student to proceed here is to send a
question like the following

"I am working on an assignment to fontasize an ostritch
in Ada, and I wondered if someone could point me in the
right direction, since I am having trouble figuring out
how to get started with fontasization in Ada."

If you look at past threads, you will see that a request
like this almost always gets helpful responses.


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