Help on Homework help

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. In response to the recent poll, and because I promised to, here is a first attempt at a page to direct people to, should they ask for homework help in the wrong way: http://haskell.org/hawiki/HomeworkHelp Comments, criticisms and contributions are most welcome. Cheers, Andrew

Poll result: How to respond to homework questions

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Pledger
Hi. The stream of votes has dried up, and the ICFP people and monthly digest people have had an opportunity, so here's the collated result. 22 people voted. (A) Give a perfect answer. (B) Give a subtly flawed answer. (C) Give an obfuscated answer. (D) Give a critique of what the questioner has tr

Re: OT - Book on Programming

2003-09-02 Thread David Van Horn
How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, and Krishnamurthi is rather good at introducing the fundamentals of programming in my opinion. I've given the book to friends of mine with no background in programming or computer science and they've

OT - Book on Programming

2003-09-02 Thread Matthew Donadio
Hi all, This is a little off-topic, but I know there are a lot of people here with teaching experience. I am looking for a good book on programming. I recently picked up a gig doing ActionScript programming for a multimedia company. They have very good designers, but not very good programmers.