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Re: A question about a few variables in a class

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Chad wrote:
> Eric Sosman wrote:
>>>[...]
>>> //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.

So the eff what?  How does that influence the price of gefulte fish in Beijing?

>>      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.

Look, no one is saying anyone has to be a genius or a straight-A student, but to get all defensive like that and whine about not being smart instead of taking the coaching is a boneheaded stupid reaction.  If you cannot take advice to improve your skills, but instead make pathetic excuses that are utterly irrelevant and do yourself a disservice to boot, why do you even bother asking for help?

Go back and read Eric's advice again and follow it, and get your ego out of the way or get out of programming.

-- 
Lew

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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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