Re: Loops

[gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)]

In article <8gp79k$c95$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote:
>In article <slrn8ivjsi.ooc.gisle@krake.ii.uib.no>,
>  gisle@krake.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde) wrote:
>> This reply could have been helpful for a more experienced Ada
>> programmer, but this was obviously a beginer, both in Ada and
>> programming. This is not the way of replying to a beginner.
>
>In general that's a fair observation. However, here we have
>a student who clearly is not doing their part of the work,
>and is simply posting lots of elementary messages here in
>an effort to get us to do their homework, and not putting
>in a reasonable amount of work reading the documents.
>
>Note that today, half the active threads in CLA come from
>this one student, all asking about various elementary aspects
>of what I would guess is a single assignment.
>
>So under the circumstnaces, I find David's reply reasonable
>(see my more direct reply earlier in one of the threads).

It was surely right to tell her to do her own homework, but
there are both pleasant and unpleasant ways of telling them to
do so. I prefer the former.

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Gisle S�lensminde ( gisle@ii.uib.no )   

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