From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e78bf08926a9187e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: Helping Students Date: 1997/01/19 Message-ID: <97011914552816@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 210882594 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU x-vms-to: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-vms-cc: CONDIC Date: 1997-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen 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. > 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 Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 561.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669 P.O. Box 109600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 Internet: CONDIC@FLINET.COM =============================================================================== "Languages don't kill people. *Programmers* do!" -- Rich Stewart - Language Lawyer & Language Control Opponent. ===============================================================================