[Haskell-cafe] Re: Doing people's homework?

2009-09-29 Thread Maurí­cio CA
If you do a student's homework, you are cheating that student out of an education. Personally, I tend to find exercises without access to the answers a poor way to learn. You'll learn more from a well crafted example than you ever will by struggling at something yourself. In these lines,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Doing people's homework?

2009-09-28 Thread Maurí­cio CA
I'm not really hip to the culture here so this is just an observation, but some of the recent questions posted to this list (and beginn...@haskell.org) look a lot like someone's homework. Well, if homework looks like homework, the teacher is guilty of cheating. Best, Maurício