>Bjorn Reese wrote: >> The students used longer titles, such as "count number of >> occurrences" and "find if any element is of some sort", whereas the >> professionals used short titles, such as "count" and "find". >> >> This could indicate that the looping constructs belong to the >> basic-level category (Rosch, 1978) of the professionals but not >> of the student.
>Or it could mean that the students were in the habit of being >overly verbose in answering questions, since terseness is generally >not rewarded in exams, while it often is rewarded in business. Indeed it could also mean the students had absorbed a lesson about writing meaningful comments and the professionals were, well, professional programmers. L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
