Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Lamb Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java code Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:21:37 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1o6dnRRLlOIZI5TOnZ2dnUVZ7oednZ2d@bt.com> <2tidncX0ksO_PIzOnZ2dnUVZ8tKdnZ2d@bt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="582e165532e9c292c654c5bbdca1358d"; logging-data="20270"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18qw4iuoft9aGUeUY4Rt5qe" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <2tidncX0ksO_PIzOnZ2dnUVZ8tKdnZ2d@bt.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:yaz7gP8ItXfa4I6WdSLLap2fMho= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27655 On 01/03/2014 3:58 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> Even if you dislike the smartass answers, you shouldn't be answering >> people's homework questions for them. > > Why? For one thing, he or she probably attends an institution with an Academic Integrity code that forbids them asking people to solve their homework problems, so you're likely helping someone who is being deliberately dishonest from the beginning. I suspect he or she has access to instructors, teaching assistants, and tutors who can spend one-on-one time leading him or her to the right insights into solving the problem without actually giving away the whole answer. Someone *might* be able to do such a thing online, and IIRC someone upthread tried to do so, but face-to-face is usually faster and more effective because it's easier to clue in to what's confusing the student. As to your comment upthread that people can gain insight from seeing a solution, that may well happen *occasionally* but in my experience that's much rarer than a student simply copying the answer and being totally unable to cope with similar questions in the future, which is the opposite of your intent.