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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: Bill Hay Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation) Date: 1996/06/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159309566 x-mail2news-path: disperse.demon.co.uk!post.demon.co.uk!dumain.ibmpcug.co.uk x-nntp-posting-host: dumain.ibmpcug.co.uk references: <4o07o9$rfu@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> <4oegks$ntn@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4p2jau$hkp@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> organization: WiSH's place newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4p2jau$hkp@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> peter@tesla.newcastle.edu.au writes: >Perhaps this wouldn't matter if we could be sure that all >the students did the full four years. I have the impression, >however, that a lot of CS graduates are managing to >graduate without having had to do a lot of serious >programming in their course. In this and Certainly on my degree course only about 10% of the year ever actually wrote any programs. The remainder simply copied the program from one of the coders and disguised it a bit. The interesting thing is that the copiers were usually marked higher because their documentation was better. Not only did they have more time to document it but not having written the code they were better able to identify the parts of the program which needed documentation and those which were self-explanatory. -- "You know what really burns my ass?" -Tinya Wazzo