Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!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, 10 May 2011 08:32:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4DC93E80.2BC3@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:32:48 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: A question about a programming class References: <2klds659scma0b2956paq2oepeu5n9kuup@4ax.com> <0.3c4d425fccfbb2c4617e.20110510125018BST.87ei46zsed.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.216.15 X-Trace: sv3-uHx+RZvon3k/OL+brgIggTJoUR3aAa3HDLkupJ6SO8y3AkXCNWniJmlGrLWALxw9FjFgA6kV0N5XQNp!VAodfWmio6KydhkHQetQ+8NhBFUcHuHZKL3v6Why9OfNHe+rA2XbQZ0LUoSzAz89wztp8zDJW+89!0gZKfgrahQ== 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: 2180 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:297 Ben Bacarisse wrote: > > Pavel Lepin writes: > > > rossum wrote: > >> On Sat, 7 May 2011 19:01:53 -0700 (PDT), Chad > >> 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