Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #28785

Re: assignments

Show all headers | View raw

On 6/19/2014 9:06 PM, Ruben Ongayo wrote:
> On Friday, June 20, 2014 8:51:19 AM UTC+8, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> On 6/19/2014 8:44 PM, Ruben Ongayo wrote:
>> esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
>> it didn't run in my eclipse ...please give me the whole codes Mr.... .. please

     What, exactly, do you mean when you say "it didn't run?"  If it
failed to compile, what error message(s) did the compiler produce?
If it compiled but failed to run, what error message(s) did the
Java Virtual Machine produce?

     ... but all of this is beside the point.  Based on several years
of experience with this and other newsgroups, blatant "do my homework
for me" requests get a mixture of four responses:

     0) Some people ignore them entirely.  A subset of these people
        may also configure their newsreaders to automatically ignore
        all future posts by the homework-shirker.

     1) Some people provide solutions for *precisely* what was asked,
        solutions that are invariably useless as homework.  (That's
        the course I took in this instance.)  A variant on this is to
        answer "Write this program" with "Okay, I wrote it: If you want
        to see what I wrote, send money."

     2) Some people provide solutions that are *almost* right, with
        errors that the homework-shirker is unlikely to detect but
        that will be obvious to the person grading the homework.

     3) Some people provide solutions that are correct but are quite
        obviously not the homework-shirker's work: They'll use Java
        features the beginner cannot possibly have learned yet, for
        example.  One particularly nasty variant is a program that
        does what was asked but also prints "Ruben Ongayo is a lazy
        slimeball" *and* won't do anything at all if the message is
        removed or altered.

     The moral of all this is: Do your own homework.  If you need help,
ask your instructor(s).  If you have made an honest attempt and are
still having trouble, you can seek help here *if* you can show evidence
that you've actually tried: Show what you've written, describe how it
misbehaves, and describe how you wanted it to behave.  That sort of
message gets help; "Do my work for me" doesn't.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

assignments Ruben Ongayo <rubzm11@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 17:44 -0700
  Re: assignments Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-19 20:51 -0400
    Re: assignments Ruben Ongayo <rubzm11@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 18:06 -0700
      Re: assignments Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-19 21:33 -0400
        Re: assignments Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2014-06-21 20:51 +1000
          Homework sabotage [Was: Re: assignments] Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-21 08:46 -0400
  Re: assignments Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-06-19 20:49 -0500
  Re: assignments Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-06-20 08:04 -0700

csiph-web