Re: Thanks guys..my project and my many problems

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> "chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>I always found it strange that they rammed Code Reuse down our throats
>>the whole of second year, yet we weren't allowed to practise it!
> 
> 
> Perhaps they wanted you to write your code so you could reuse it in other
> projects.   Data structure packages I wrote in other classes came in handy
> when doing other assignments when I was an undergraduate.  Of course your
> milage could vary depending on your university.

Yeah, I started doing that at the beginning of my first second year (I 
repeated second year).  The problem was that by the time I had amassed a 
number of data structures, I'd learned new ways to make them better and 
improve their interfaces.  Now they just all look ugly to me.

One of the other problems I had was that the university has an 
assignment management system which is truely crap.  Unless they'd 
specifically set it up to grab everything in a directory, it would only 
grab the files it knew about so we couldn't submit our data structures 
with our assignments.  In first and second year, I usually had to moan 
at my supervisor to get packages sumbitted as I often liked to use the 
main program simply as a driver rather than plonk all the code in it 
once it got to 400+ lines of code.  Really frustrating :(


Also we can't really use them now, Ada was only used in term 1 and now 
it's all Java and C.  Java has loads of data structures, so writing them 
for that is not really worth it and C, well, I don't want to go there... :)


Chris