I'm not bucking for "net nanny" but, while full solutions and
follow-on discussions can be enlightening, I wonder if they're
really advantageous to the OP. Not to embarrass anyone but there
was no mention of DIY attempts, no soliciting of hints or
approaches, or even mention of being stuck or frustrated thinking
about how to start.
On the other hand, any program under 200 lines is trivial and is a
warm-up exercise. ;)
How are newbies going to learn good coding practices without reading
good code?
Indeed. People learn in different ways. Some people, myself
included, learn through seeing examples which then can be used to
read up further with a better insight and understanding of what
they're looking at/reading. Others, can simply pick out information
from books and learn without much guidance. Sometimes, the text
written by people may not be as intuitive to others reading it as
the author may believe. Of course, that doesn't mean those learning
shouldn't make an effort to understand first and rely solely on the
examples and guidance of others
Agreed - and that's why I think the examples can be enlightening for
every level. However, this example while demanding a fair level of
skill wasn't brain surgery and even newbies and students should be able
to make an initial attempt at a solution and report what they saw or
where they got stuck. Or even preface their post with "I tried
'split' but even thinking about the next step gives me a headache. What
would you suggest?". Now the expectation is tilting to "Solve it
for me... you got nothing better to do and I'm busy... too busy to waste
my time detailing what if anything I did to help myself".
I tend to publish rather more code than is necessary so as to provide a
proof of concept, rather than to do the OP's work for them. However I
know there is a tendency to ask for fish, rather than help to catch them
This blog post talks about it exceptionally well
http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried/
Rob
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