Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Ben Scott
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,

RE: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Brian
Answer C: Who cares? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:01 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Homework problems (was: extract string) Assume it is a homework problem. Does

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Travis Roy
. If they get it right, good for them, they still got the job done. Answer C: Who cares? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:01 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Homework problems

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:13 pm, Brian wrote: Answer C: Who cares? All of us will care when the country has to depend on the products of today's education system. Get ready for it. The standards are so incredibly low that these graduates will not even know the buzz words of

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Travis Roy
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:13 pm, Brian wrote: Answer C: Who cares? All of us will care when the country has to depend on the products of today's education system. Get ready for it. The standards are so incredibly low that these graduates will not even know

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 10, 2006, at 18:05, Travis Roy wrote: How do we, as a list, tell what's a homework problem and what's a legit question. I think there's little substitute for knowing the membership. Zhao is a programmer for Dartmouth Medical School. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner

RE: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Brian
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Kuzdrall Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:45 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Homework problems (was: extract string) All of us will care when the country has

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
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

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/10/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 18:05, Travis Roy wrote: How do we, as a list, tell what's a homework problem and what's a legit question.I think there's little substitute for knowing the membership.Zhao isa programmer for Dartmouth Medical School. For, or

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/10/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A programmer that doesn't know how to grep and split text strings.. Believe it or not, there are environments *other* then nix, and a great many well-qualified professionals have never touched nix. I don't just mean doze, either. Classic

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:56:46PM -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: On 1/10/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 18:05, Travis Roy wrote: How do we, as a list, tell what's a homework problem and what's a legit question. I think there's little substitute for

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:56:46PM -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: A programmer that doesn't know how to grep and split text strings.. Well.. Isn't.. I know of several ways to do it, but none of them would have worked as well as the cut solution presented here. I've been working on Linux as

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 10, 2006, at 20:16, Christopher Schmidt wrote: The lack of knowledge of a simple command line tool to do what you want it to does not indicate whether someone is a programmer or not. It simply indicates one thing -- their level of experience with core *nix tools. Lack of that is not an

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:16:47PM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:56:46PM -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: A programmer that doesn't know how to grep and split text strings.. Well.. Isn't.. I know of several ways to do it, but none of them would have

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 06:05 pm, Travis Roy wrote: Just let it go, if you think it's somebody cheating then don't answer, or give them a vague answer or point them to places where they can learn about it rather then copy it off of. That is my technique too. I get to answer a lot of