Can post a code but afraid of plagiarism

[bryan rasmussen]

>When you take a course, you should be learning, not just passing. That
>means that getting someone else to do your work for you is completely
>wrong, so I won't help you.

I have decided to become an MBA.



On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:55 PM, indar kumar <indarkumar59 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Actually, I tried to ask some questions but I was discouraged to do so
> saying that I was working on a project or some assignment. Truth be told I
> am stuck at one point and since I don't have experience with programming
> language, I have been working for it for two days but couldn't come up with
> some idea so posted some questions of the same format just to know whether
> there is particular method etc to do so. Hint would have been enough but I
> was strictly discouraged.
> >
>
> Here's my policy on homework. Others may vary, but you'll find a lot
> will be broadly similar.
>
> When you take a course, you should be learning, not just passing. That
> means that getting someone else to do your work for you is completely
> wrong, so I won't help you. But if you've put down some code and it's
> not working, then by all means, ask for help with the details; it's
> easy if you have an error message you don't understand (you might be
> able to get that by Googling it), but a lot harder if you're getting
> output you don't understand, and then it can help a LOT to have an
> expert look at your code. You would need to post your code and exactly
> what you're seeing as wrong (exception traceback, or "expected this
> output, got this instead"); and if you make it clear up-front that
> it's homework and you're looking for hints rather than an
> answer-on-a-plate, I'm happy to help.
>
> What you will find, though, is that most requests are more of the
> nature of "please do my homework for me", so people are more likely to
> be annoyed than helpful when they see what's obviously homework. So
> you have a bit of an uphill battle just to get heard. But if you can
> show that you're here to learn - and showing that you've already
> written most of the code is a good way to do that - you can get help,
> and often a lot of it.
>
> ChrisA
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