Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxh!hlexa!wjhe From: wjhe@hlexa.UUCP (Bill Hery) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept? Message-ID: <4262@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 09:47:59 EDT Article-I.D.: hlexa.4262 Posted: Thu Jun 20 09:47:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 00:43:57 EDT References: <1457@utah-gr.UUCP> <8@ucbcad.UUCP> <157@jendeh.UUCP> <43@avsdS.UUCP> <183@jendeh.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 31 > > > Then again > > > there are some professors I wouldn't mind seeing a meeting such a fate. > > > Especially the ones that give you a 'C' for not attending lectures. > > It has been my experience that anyone who can pass > > a class without coming is either: > > 1. wasting everyone elses time by even > > enrolling since they've had the class before > > --or-- > > 2. Cheating they're asses off. > In many occasions it is possible to pass a class without > attending lectures. For example when the lectures follow exactly the contents > of the assigned text book or when most of the class grade is based on a final > programming project that does not necessitate the knowledge imparted to > the students in the classroom. You seem to be confusing the notion of passing a course with learning the material covered by the course. A one semester, three credit course involves about 45 hours of lecture, and 50 to 150 additional hours of study. Do you really think a two hour exam can be made up that adequately measures your knowledge of that much work? Do you really think you have learned the course because you have been able to answer 70% of the questions? Do you really think that if you complete the final programming project on which the grade is based there was nothing worth learning in the lectures? If so, you might be in for a rude awakening when you take a grad school course based on what you skipped, or your next job requires you to use some of it. Bill Hery