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From: brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell)
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Subject: Re: students editing output
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 20:37:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 20:37:10 1985
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     About students doing this...

     Here at the University of Texas, I was a TA for the big Assembly Language
course.  200 sophomores; big weedout class.
     We ran all the programs.  Yes, that's expensive (a CDC Cyber pretending it
knows what a PDP-11 is, and pretending it knows what Ascii is.  We're talking
KLUDGE.) and time-consuming (real-time per program sometimes reaches into
hours.).
     After a while, you know who you can trust.  Besides, you only have to run
the ones that claim to work.  We ran the others to see how bad they really
were.
     As far as due dates are concerned.  Our rules:  It had to be in at
midnight of a certain day.  Under the TA's door.  No exceptions/excuses.
(except sometimes.  We weren't too cruel.  And five minutes late didn't
matter.)
     We have access to their sources and file dates.  We re-assembled and ran
them.  Again, it's time-consuming, but we saw no alternative.

Brian H. Powell
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