Re: Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!

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Ouch! That was harsh.  But a good lesson he will never forget as long as
he lives.  Don't ya just love that race card :-)  We really shouldn't be
talking about this here, but it is a good subject.

Tim...

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 06:03, Edward Croft wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 21:59, janne wrote:
> > You do realize that this list is archived publicly and indexed by
> > google, right? It would be absolutely trivial for your teacher to use
> > google to find out that you are trying to have other people do your
> > homework for you.
> > 
> > Besides, the whole point of doing homework is learning from doing it -
> > it is counterproductive for you to ask, and a waste of time for us to do
> > your work.
> > 
> Well, there are two schools of thought. A good sys admin will know where
> to find the resources to find solutions. Given the complexities of
> modern operating systems and computers there is just too much for any
> one person to know it all. As I have taught a class in programming eons
> ago, as an instructor, I would give him credit for seeking out this
> group for solutions. Though if this information was contained within the
> scope of the class, then he would get gigged for not knowing it. 
> And to Mr. Oberoi, that class I taught, I was a student in until the
> instructor left. I was asked due to my high grades and abilities to
> finish out teaching the class. I had one student who handed in work that
> I tore up right in front of his eyes and gave him an "F". Why? Well it
> seems that he was a picker. He went through the trash when others
> weren't around and found their code. The reason he got caught? He copied
> it verbatim, including my signature EMC2. He tried to turn my work into
> me as his own. He went to the administration trying to claim racial
> bias, but after I showed them the evidence he was let go. The moral, you
> really need to do the work. Pay attention in class. Learn all you can.
> But mostly, you need to do your own work. Taking someone else's work and
> saying it is your own is known in the literary world as plagiarism. You
> can only get away with that for so long before you are found out. Put in
> the work.  Learn. You will be the better for it.
> 
> -- 
> Edward M. Croft
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Open Ratings, Inc.
> 200 West Street
> Waltham, MA 02451-1121
> 



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