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Having students work on each others' code like that is a great idea. It astounds me that schools don't seem to have stumbled upon that idea yet.

Then again, the instructors in college programming classes are often ivory tower academics who've never done production development themselves these days.

competition between students. This would damage them emotionally, making some 'lose' and look like failures. It's a sort of child abuse really is n't it. It would damage them in later life.

Any reasonable person has got to agree with this view haven't they ?

Makes you f'kin boil doesn't it!

Yes.

You both know the saying Those That Can Do & Those That Can't Teach!

You could never accuse many of these teachers as being overly bright and even worse you can never accept that they would willing be shown up by their students.

I can still remember the very first drawing that I did when I was doing Mech Engineering a assembly Open & In Line which couldn't be assembled but the pictures looked so nice.

I got marked down for changing the drawing because you couldn't assemble it and was promptly told that it wasn't a Design Problem but a Fitting Problem.

Col

just incredibly stupid sometimes.
LOL

I know someone that was a computer science major at a large college that had a issue with the department chairperson/professor. You see, the college?s computers were running DOS while the student had Windows 95. This meant that the college had one version of Turbo Pascal while the student had another. To get around the differences the student took advantage of the pre-processor in writing a homework assignment so that in DOS some statements would be compiled and in Windows other statements would be.

The issue was that the professor refused to compile and execute the students program because in her words, ?it won?t work.? The student taking the initiative herself compiled and executed the program herself in front of the professor. The professor was appalled that the student would not believe her and embarrass in front of others promptly marked down the student?s grade for lack of respect and cheating.

The professor?s logic for the student cheating was that the student read the manual for the compiler. The professor continued that, ?in the real world programmers need to make due without manuals.? In disgust the student left college.

Thinking about it now professors without real world experience are part of the problem.

Besides he may come back, and I have to work much harder at flaming you guys now.

Is still smarting from being fired for Computer Misuse in it's last position and that was only a summer Fill in job without pay where it's piratically impossible to be fired from. After all who's going to fire a freebie? :) :^0

But little Spuddy M found out just how disposable it actually is I understand it's applying for Bill Gates Old Job God Help Us All!

It wants to do all the development on the next version of Vista.

Col ]:)

Consider him shunned from now on.