On 1/10/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now your Lug can achieve its financial funding goals simply by charging > 25 cents for each shell scripting homework problem answered and 50 cents > for extended explanations such as rendered below. :-)
I was wondering if I should raise the "Ya know, this looks an awful lot like a homework problem to me..." question. But I also considered the following: Assume it is a homework problem. Does it make a real difference whether the student learns the material from the text book, this list, or some random web page found via Google? That assumes the student learns the material of course. But students copy answers from each other, text books, and other materials all the time. If someone is so dumb as to copy material without learning it, well, life will eventually teach them the folly of that, too. Life is a persistent teacher. There's also the fact that several answers have been posted, each with varying degrees of applicability to the questions posed. The student would have to sort through those answers and choose the one they thought best suited to the task at hand. That's a useful skill, too. And if the student hands in a Perl one-liner in a basic class on shell scripting, the resulting student/instructor discuss will doubtless by very educational. This is not to say I'm going to go down a list of home work questions and provide concise, unexplained answers. I generally try to avoid that regardless of the audience. I find the explanation and reasoning behind the solution to a problem is generally far more educational then the solution alone. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
