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From: Viren Parasram <viren>
Subject: Re: quicksort
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Hi,
    I agree that finding answers to your assignments on the web should
 be frowned upon. It is and will continue to be a valuable resource
to serious students. It is the teachers who should wake up and realise
that there old methods of testing the students understanding of the
topic is no longer appropriate.
    In my work my boss does not care if I got the code from the web or
if I worked on it by myself. If it saves the company time/money who cares.
In fact before you spend hours working on new code you should ask first
"Has anyone written code for this problem". I have shared my code with
others and have used code that I found. Just give the original author the
credit and move on. It is a waste of time to reinvent the wheel; 
 " JUST MAKE IT BETTER "
Bye,
    Viren

ridoux@calypso.irisa.fr (Olivier Ridoux) wrote:
>In article <4ojeio$goi@euas20.eua.ericsson.se>, euajanne@eua.ericsson.se (Jan Andersson) writes:
>|> > fore057@canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>|> > Carol Zander writes:
>|> > >Robert Parris  <parrisr@seattleu.edu> wrote:
>|> > >>Does anyone have a quicksort program written in Prolog.
>|> > 
>|> > >Don't reply to this.  It is an assignment for his programming
>|> > >languages class.
>...
>|> > I suggest you tell him he'll fail if he uses anything posted in
>|> > response to this request.  It will make his assignment a little 
>|> > harder.
>...
>|> But in the case of Robert's, the attempt to cheat is obvious. I suggest you tell
>|> him he'll be expelled if he doesn't come up with a really original solution to the
>|> assignment.

>A better assignment is "Explain a Prolog encoding of quicksort".  It implies
>a more thorough work on the Web, a more serious reading of "The Art of Prolog",
>and a more animate bar discussion.
You think those mutiple choice profs will ever go for the work such an 
assignment entails. HA HA HA!!!
-- 
Viren Parasram (Systems Programmer)   
Computing Services, University of Windsor,   Phone: 519-253-4232 Ext. 2775     
401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario,         Fax:   519-973-7083
Canada N9B 3P4                               Email: VIREN@UWINDSOR.CA

