From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Jumping Ahead
Date: 1997/02/21
Date: 1997-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.856573221@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Feb20.080200.1@eisner
John asks
<<> We didn't learn this in class yet, but I learned it on my own and used
> it. Now I'm proud of my program, but I'm worried. Do you think my lab
> instructor will be annoyed that I skipped a few chapters ahead? (I'm not
> doing this for brownie points, just something I wanted to do.)>>
The ultimate strange use of newsgroups :-)
here we have a question about what a given instructor will think about
something.
In the old days, it might occur that the best way to find this out
would be to ask the instructor.
But with the magnificent internet at hand,. why not try asking the
question to thousands of people OTHER than the instructor, maybe they
can collectively guess the instructors mind.
Now I can just imagine a reason for not asking the instructor being
that for some reason you want to keep it secret from the instructor
that the question is being asked, but I am afraid public posting
is NOT the best way to keep a secret! (I always do dejanews checks on
what all my students are posting :-)
Seriously, just ask the instructor, it is hard to imagine someone being
annoyed by this, although sometimes I have had trouble with students
jumping ahead and drowning in stuff they do not really understand!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-21 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-19 0:00 Jumping Ahead John M. Greer
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Dennis W. Butler
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