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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: working programs
Message-ID: <873@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 14:13:27 EST
Article-I.D.: kitty.873
Posted: Fri Mar 14 14:13:27 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Mar-86 01:52:56 EST
References: <9431@ritcv.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 28
Keywords: ripoff ??
Summary: No compile, no function - no grade!

In article <9431@ritcv.UUCP>, jxs7451@ritcv.UUCP writes:
> This article has to do with working programs in CS courses. 
> 
> For a program that does not compile, and has good style, i have seen people
> get 65 %, and with compilation get 75%.  Of course the program turned in
> must be reasonably long, and look like it might do something close to what
> was assigned.  
> 
> To me this doesn't seem right, i mean that the program should be atleast
> able to compile, and start to do something.  Obviously many people are
> not going to get to all of the special cases, or maybe skip a part, but
> students were just going to the lab and typing for 5 hours to get a reasonable
> length thing and hand it in with good style, and pass(with a D). 
> 
> Any opinions about this out there?

	By gum, if you're taking a CS course, an examination program better not
only compile, but show some damn good function!  What have you learned if all
you can do is write non-functional "stylized" lines of code that will not even
(ohmygod!) compile?  There is no excuse for someone who is so ignorant, lazy
and/or sloppy that a program will not compile.

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