Mick:
OK OK...Nuther example..Here I am sitting in a C programming labby type
class....
The teacher tells us we have a quiz today. We are sposed to code a
small program based on the Hanoi Tower. Now the instructor wrote the
code on the board a few days before. We *copied* it. For the quiz,
we were given a small word problem which would use this code as a
basis...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch....
An online friend from Australia sent me a much more powerful little prog
he had written for the Hanoi problem. I had it in my unix account.
Studied what he had done (didn't fully understand...but was starting to
get it.)
Meanwhile back at the quiz.....
So I am tweaking my Aussie friend's version and the teacher's version,
looking at the differences, trying to figure out which parts of what code will
work
best for the prog. I calls the teacher over and points out some of the
differences, and query if he can explain some lines in my friend's code.
He wasn't sure, so I says to him...uh wait a sec let me see if OZ boy is
online and we can both ask him. Well, the teacher's jaw 'most drops to
the floor. It NEVER dawned on him that I could be talking to proggers
from around the world at the same time I was listening to him lecture
or taking a quiz. He really didn't now what to make of the whole
thing...
Janet
always guilty of passing notes during class, but *always*
cites her sources (Gee, Mz Ratchit, that's Tommie's writing, not mine.)
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