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Re: A question about a few variables in a class

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On Aug 14, 3:04 pm, Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
> On 8/14/2011 4:23 PM, Chad wrote:
>
> > On Aug 13, 5:49 pm, Eric Sosman<esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>  wrote:
> >> On 8/13/2011 1:30 PM, Chad wrote:
>
> >>> On Aug 6, 4:56 am, Eric Sosman<esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>    wrote:
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>        We don't actually know what Rectangle is because there are no
> >>>> import statements to tell us what package it's in.[...]
>
> >>       Just out of curiosity, what *is* the `Rectangle' you used?
>
> > Below is all 5 million lines of code from the book....
> >[...]
> > //Rectangle1 isn't a typo
> > public class Rectangle1 extends GeometricObject1 {
>
>      Not a typo, fine.  Also still not `Rectangle' ...
>
>      Chad, if you ever expect to make any progress in programming
> you will have to learn a few hard truths about exactness.  First, of
> course, is that the computer will do exactly what you tell it to --
> and the whole huge activity called "debugging" amounts to exploring
> the gap between what was said and what was meant.  That being the
> case, it is counterproductive in the extreme to widen the gap
> gratuitously, as you have done in this thread by persisting in
> sloppiness.  You are just making things harder, unnecessarily harder,
> and people may tire of working unnecessarily hard to help you.
>

I'd like to believe I've more progress, than say, a few unnamed people
that keep posting questions in comp.lang.c.

>      By the way, the status of the thread's question is just as it
> was nine days ago: "Insufficient information to support an answer."
> Not much progress for nine days, is it?
>

Well, I believe that I've gone on record in the past as saying that
I'm kind of slow. I'm not ashamed of the fact that I got flat out
rejected by both UCLA and UC Berkeley on numerous occassions. I'm fine
with the fact that I have to read a section in the school book
multiple times and ask questions before anything actually sinks in. I
know there are people in this program that don't have to study and
still manage to get A's. I'm not one of them.

Chad

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A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-05 14:31 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-05 14:46 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-06 07:56 -0400
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 10:30 -0700
      Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 20:49 -0400
        Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 13:23 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-14 13:52 -0700
            Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 22:50 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 18:04 -0400
            Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 17:09 -0700
              Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 21:57 -0400
              Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 22:55 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 18:01 -0400
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-06 22:58 -0700
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-07 05:28 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 09:14 -0700
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 10:27 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-14 18:36 -0700

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