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: 103376,13717fdb90d942 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Would someone help a struggling ADA student Date: 1998/10/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 402693688 References: <70bnbs$aqq$1@news.campus.mci.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 18 Oct 1998, Steve wrote: > Ehud Lamm writes: > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > > > > > > I am afraid I don't completly agree. Theoretically you are right, but in > > practice things get more complicated. You learn the niches of the > > language, and the special advantages (and disadvantages...) it has, only > > from really trying to solve problems on your own. I don't think exercises > > this complicated should be the norm, but one such exercise per course, is > > a "Good Thing"(tm). > > > The teacher has indeed given us enough background to make the exercise > managable. In each class he answers our questions and we now have all > written programs to satisfy his requirements for a grade; that requirement > being a program that will play battleship. It is up to us to refine our > battleship games to win the tourney (and he still gives us hints with our > code). Our grade is based on the outcome of the tourney. We will play > his program as well but only to see how we stand against a "pro". Oh. I get it now. Well, if this is the case, I'd say I like the exercise, but I would hate such a grading system. This is of course assuming the course is aboyut ADA and not about "problem solving". But the discussion did give me an idea of starting a cretive programming problem-solving list. Are does one exist already? Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il