Ha! I always said if I ever taught programming -- I never have -- I was going to do that -- swap code between students.
The other thing I was going to do in the same vein was give a programming assignment -- perhaps with a fairly tight deadline -- and halfway through say "oh, wait, the specs have changed" and hand them a somewhat different variant of the problem. (I thought that modeled real life programming!) Charles On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:17:05 -0400, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >In an effort to keep people from writing difficult to impossible >to maintain code, while I was teaching COBOL, I warned the >students that I would be picking a programming lesson, where once >it was completed, everyone would have to swap card decks and then >have to add the next lesson's function to it. They would be ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
