[Tutor] A rant about Tutor homework policy

[cino hilliard]

I agree 100%. Either answer the question or delete it. Who needs a lecture 
on "you should do you own home work" etc.

>From: "tutor.python.org" <tutor.python.org@pooryorick.com>
>To: tutor@python.org
>Subject: [Tutor] A rant about Tutor homework policy
>Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:13:31 -0600
>
>With all due respect to the great minds which inhabit this list, I wish to 
>make known my opinion that this list would be more beneficial to all if 
>homework-related questions were not discriminated against.  To my mind, one 
>of the key values of the hacker culture is the free flow of useful 
>information, with each individual deciding for themselves what knowledge to 
>partake of.  When I am attempting to solve a problem, I believe I know 
>better than any third party what kind of assistance I need.  No matter how 
>many solutions are given away to me through this or any other list, there 
>is a never-ending supply of new problems to chew on.  In high school I had 
>books which only published the answers to odd-numbered questions, which 
>drove me absolutely nuts.  Supposedly, this was to make think and come up 
>with the answers independently, but what it really did was deprive me of 
>valuable feedback which I needed to make sure I was doing things correctly. 
>  Each person is unique, and in the course of their education come to 
>unique stumbling blocks.  Why should we be concerned about whether or not 
>we are helping someone cheat their way through school?  Why should we care 
>about sabotaging this or that educational system?  Ultimately, it is the 
>individual who decides whether they will pursue real understanding, and no 
>amount of integrity policing by this list will change an individual's inner 
>motives.  I for one would love to see this list set politics aside and 
>provide more answers to standard computer science problems.  I have never 
>been enrolled in a university as a student of computer science and probably 
>never will be.  If valuable resources on the Internet decide not to publish 
>fundamental information regarding computer science for fear of stepping on 
>the toes of "educational institutions", then the knowledge will effectively 
>be limited to participants of those institutions.    I say, make the 
>information available to everyone, and let the cheaters cheat!  After all, 
>they're going to cheat anyway.  The rest of us will avail ourselves of what 
>information we need when we need it in order to gain as much understanding 
>as possible in the few short years we have before the task of pushing up 
>daisies falls to us.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Poor Yorick
>tutor.python.org@pooryorick.com
>
>
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