Re: A question about a programming class

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Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> 
> Pavel Lepin <p.lepin@dyninno.com> writes:
> 
> > rossum wrote:
> >> On Sat, 7 May 2011 19:01:53 -0700 (PDT), Chad <cdalten@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>For example, the last exam was 65 points. He docked me 1 point for
> >>>every missing semi-colon.

> Is this a paper exercise? 
> I suspect the OP is referring to writing code on paper.
> 
> You can select for any attributes you like, but I would not want to
> reject all people who omit a comma in a "paper" program.

I too don't think that a mistake which can be characterised as 
"a typo that a compiler would pick up" is such a big deal.
If you google on the phrase "compile often",
it seems to be a commonly recommended practice.

But then again, one point on an exam for a missing semicolon, 
isn't a big deal either. 
You have to be able to separate the A's from the B's, somehow.

-- 
pete

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A question about a programming class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 18:57 -0700
  Re: A question about a programming class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 19:01 -0700
    Re: A question about a programming class rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2011-05-08 18:49 +0100
      Re: A question about a programming class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 13:25 -0700
        Re: A question about a programming class Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2011-05-08 23:04 +0200
        Re: A question about a programming class Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-09 10:28 +1200
          Re: A question about a programming class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 16:56 -0700
          Re: A question about a programming class rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2011-05-09 13:09 +0100
        Re: A question about a programming class Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 08:01 -0400
      Re: A question about a programming class Pavel Lepin <p.lepin@dyninno.com> - 2011-05-09 12:17 +0300
        Re: A question about a programming class Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-05-10 12:50 +0100
          Re: A question about a programming class pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-05-10 09:32 -0400
            Re: A question about a programming class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 10:14 -0700
          Re: A question about a programming class Pavel Lepin <p.lepin@dyninno.com> - 2011-05-10 18:05 +0300
    Re: A question about a programming class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-09 16:34 -0700
  Re: A question about a programming class Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 08:00 -0400
    Re: A question about a programming class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 10:21 -0700

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