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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c3155860644be062 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-05 01:21:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thanks guys..my project and my many problems References: <3E5A2381.21FD3F14@bton.ac.uk> <1ec946d1.0302250931.2fe67884@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:22:06 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.72 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1046856118 81.98.236.72 (Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:21:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:21:58 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34887 Date: 2003-03-05T09:22:06+00:00 List-Id: Chad R. Meiners wrote: > "chris.danx" wrote in message > news:uUP6a.4405$EN3.34753@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net... > >>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