At 21:18 11/10/2002, Joachim Ziegler wrote: >An exercise consists of a problem and eventually its solution(s). > >In a course, when it comes to an exercise, I might say "Write a program that >outputs HELLO WORLD". There is no question/answer involved here.
If I were a student, I'd interpret that as: <question>Generate a program..... </question> You may not call it a question, I assure you 99% of students would take it as exactly that. I'm sure the linguists have a name for such as this. >But a problem may well consist of finding the answer to a given question. (No matter how its phrases :-) Regards DaveP.
