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From: jrj1047@ultb.UUCP (J.R. Jarrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Maintenance
Keywords: knowledge, expectations, REALITY!
Message-ID: <1621@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 21:58:40 GMT
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In article <1403@cs.rit.edu> mjl@prague.UUCP (Michael Lutz) writes:
>For students in class G, no further motivation to do a good job is necessary.
>No matter what they get, their predisposition to doing a good job will
>be reinforced.  However, if given a bad product from stage one, they
>feel they are penalized (and given the short time spans for projects in
>a quarter or semester, they are right).  The general reaction is "I did
>a good job, why do I have to work with this crap!"  Those who can recover
>often end up doing two iterations: a rewrite of iteration 1 and whatever
>is required for iteration 2.

Yes, this will probably happen.  I know when I was an undergraduate,
I was peeved when something out of my control affected my grade.
 
But, out in the real world, you get crap to work with dumped into  
your lap very often!  I know- I'm supporting a 15-year old system now.
I think it would be worth the pain and suffering to have to modify
doo-doo code to a) give you an idea of what industry is really like;
you wouldn't go into shock the first time you had to do it, and b)
to really drive home the concept of structured designs!
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