From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: Helping Students
Date: 1997/01/19
Date: 1997-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97011914552816@psavax.pwfl.com> (raw)
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@EISNER.DECUS.ORG> Writes:
>In article <5bqrkh$i9c@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>, jmb36@bton.ac.uk (baker) writes:
>> I have no idea why you people get so upset about helping students with
>> their school work, after all, aren't you here to help pass on your Ada
>> skills and knowledge? I mean, that's what you'd be doing as I am learning
>> Ada at the moment.
>
>Nobody here can speak for all of us, but I will answer for myself.
>
<lots of good reasons cut out for brevity>
Let me add one reason which you seem to have missed citing:
The purpose of "homework" is quite a bit like the purpose of doing
push-ups or jogging. If the gym teacher assigned the class 3 miles
of jogging for "homework" and someone posted to a newsgroup: "Can
anyone out there jog for 3 miles for me?" (or 1.5 miles, presuming
the student was only looking for the hard part of the assignment)
wouldn't this look patently absurd? How does the student benefit
if someone else does the work?
Now pointing a student off in the right direction ("Look at book
X, chapter Y..." or "You need to provide a procedure which does a,
b and c...") is probably not a bad idea and I have seen several
people provide exactly that kind of help. But anyone who posts
something to the effect of "I need someone to send me a quicksort
algorithm in Ada for my class assignment" is looking for someone
to do some of their jogging for them. (Which may show some
potential for management, but this isn't B-School ;-))
MDC
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1997-01-19 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93 [this message]
1997-01-19 0:00 ` Helping Students baker
1997-01-20 0:00 ` FerretWoman
1997-01-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1997-01-21 0:00 ` Bob Klungle
1997-01-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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1997-01-18 0:00 baker
1997-01-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-20 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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