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: 103376,541695d68c6dd3f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Jumping Ahead Date: 1997/02/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 220594325 References: <5edu5k$lb0@ultranews.duc.auburn.edu> <1997Feb20.080200.1@eisner> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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!