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From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/08/27
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Date: 1996-08-27T00:00:00+00:00
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On 13 Aug 1996 10:44:56 -0700, Darin Johnson <djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>Too many people fall asleep in algorithms class
>(then bitch about the waste of time later).

It's odd how little things can bring back memories.

Sitting there at nine o'clock at night, because I couldn't fit the
day class into my schedule, listening to Sartaj Sahni drone:

    And in step 27, we set temp.prev.next to temp.next.

Then watching him erase the arrow connecting bubble C to bubble B,
then watching him draw an array connecting bubble C to bubble A.

    And in step 28, we set temp.next.prev to temp.prev.

Then watching him erase the arrow connecting bubble A to bubble B,
then watching him draw an array connecting bubble A to bubble C.

    And in step 30, we...

Has _anyone_ had an instructer who brought any excitement to this stuff,
or is it inherently impossible to teach without becoming dull and tedious?

-- 
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house.
                -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"