Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news1.tnib.de!feed.news.tnib.de!news.tnib.de!news.belwue.de!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!87.79.20.101.MISMATCH!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.146.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:05:34 -0600 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:05:32 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: mod calculation References: <72e972d6-cb28-4e1c-93fb-cc58ee56673e@p7g2000pre.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.194.31 X-Trace: sv3-lOHO9X/diZRwS7u0qLxAVBoG1jvR4vHaGJaKzEV+np+7gBNl2VJcRnxBrK2GiNiVSEUSOq0nR4uY5Gp!EiXbxDmPdy0MlnRo5qhVN8rCJMn49QmwJqcyBHr4E8j7iRV1odSPHWFhfjR/R1eOuG4C16afLvC1!AeKIjsf2QJ+ihwVjAkgC0DZOv5rtN6SHKLMv9UNyfwejqA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2399 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9966 On 11/14/2011 9:55 AM, Roedy Green wrote: ... > I know as I student I would have sooner cut off my arm than visit a > prof or TA to ask a favour, so try a fellow student. Answering course-relevant questions from students is not a favor (or favour) on the part of a professor or TA. It is part of their job. One odd effect I noticed when I was a TA was that often the students who were doing quite well on the course would ask questions, and the students who were in trouble would not. I don't know whether it was cause-and-effect, and if so in which direction. However, there is at least a possibility that willingness to ask the professor and/or TA causes good results. As a result, I strongly advise asking them questions, even for things that other people might be able to resolve. In this particular case, if there is a mismatch between the results the student thinks should be produced given the input, and the sample output, I don't see how anyone other than the professor or TA can resolve it reliably. Patricia