I just wasn't that devious, but yeah, happens in real shops more
than one cares to admit.
Steve Thompson
On 3/28/2023 6:20 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
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
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