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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: students editing output
Message-ID: <636@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 11:20:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 11:20:22 1985
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In article <150@l5.uucp> laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>I had a thought.  You send students through 4 years of a cs program
>and threaten them with everything under the sun if they cheat. Then you
>ship them out into the real world and I wonder why every third c program
>I see is written by someone who thought that he had to reinvent the
>strcmp, strncmp and related functions.

Not only that; I've seen many recent CS grads who have a great deal of
difficulty adjusting to working as part of a team - after years of being
threatened with { F on the assignment | F in the course | disciplinary
action } for collusion, it's no wonder...

AWR


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