Homework problems (was: extract string)
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at kinz.org
Tue Jan 10 19:32:01 EST 2006
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:01:05PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 1/10/06, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> > Now your Lug can achieve its financial funding goals simply by charging
> > 25 cents for each shell scripting homework problem answered and 50 cents
> > for extended explanations such as rendered below. :-)
>
> I was wondering if I should raise the "Ya know, this looks an awful
> lot like a homework problem to me..." question. But I also considered
> the following:
>
My "homework business model" was simply a tongue in cheek comment
'cause I was leaving and didn't have time to add anything
substantive to the thread.
> Assume it is a homework problem. Does it make a real difference
> whether the student learns the material from the text book, this list,
> or some random web page found via Google?
>
I've always found all of the above to be useful tools for
learning.
Well, not always - Google hit a dry spell from 1973 to 1997
or thereabouts.... :-)
umm - wait a minute...
(Googles for Google founding date.. ) 1998.
> And if the student hands in a Perl one-liner in a basic class on
> shell scripting, the resulting student/instructor discuss will
> doubtless by very educational.
heh heh, very!
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