On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:01:05PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > 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: >
My "homework business model" was simply a tongue in cheek comment 'cause I was leaving and didn't have time to add anything substantive to the thread. > 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? > I've always found all of the above to be useful tools for learning. Well, not always - Google hit a dry spell from 1973 to 1997 or thereabouts.... :-) umm - wait a minute... (Googles for Google founding date.. ) 1998. > 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. heh heh, very! -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
