On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Erin Sharmahd wrote (on behalf of anonymous):
Chris is probably at a pretty high level in his CS classes, and I have only completed 235. But, we started using more templates in that class than had been used previously, and I know that I don't feel like I learned as much as I could have, if I had been forced to do it from scratch.
The email from anonymous is basically exactly what I wanted to say. I did want to make another distinction, however:
Well-contained and well-documented libraries and tools vs. templates.
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[Since this has turned into a frustration and gripes thread anyway :)]
On an unrelated note, in CS240 we were restricted from using _ANY_ STL libraries or any external libraries. I have no problem with not using external libs, but not the STL???? We coded up most of the stuff in the STL using Java back in cs235; so we learned how it all works. Now why should we have to code it back up... that to me is a waste of everyone's time. And to make me even more frustrated, I happen to know someone who just used PCRE-lib and he was never penalized! Talk about having to jump over hoops while others take the plane ride over.
-- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University - 84602
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