help me ?

Larry Martell larry.martell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 13:14:51 EST 2018


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Congratulations!
>> You have an "A" for solving the problem and "F" for helping the guy cheat.
>> You should be expelled from the course.
>
> In my experience, this is what happens pretty much every time.
> Somebody posts a homework question asking for the answer, a few people
> say something to the effect of, "This looks like homework. What have
> you tried so far?" Then some other bozo comes along who just likes
> solving easy problems and hands up the answer on a silver platter.
>
> Cheaters are gonna cheat. In the unlikely event they don't get the
> answer here, they'll probably just manage to convince somebody to do
> the work for them somewhere else. Honestly, I don't know if it's even
> worth the bother to engage.

When I was in college back in the 70's they made people in majors like
printing or chemistry, for example, take 1 programming course. They
were always clueless and I often wrote programs for them - my typical
fee was a case of beer.



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