Reply to: RE: Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever)

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Thu Feb 28 08:01:34 2002

At 10:19 PM 2/28/02 +1100, you wrote:
>At 12:47 AM 28/02/2002 -0500, Glen Goodwin wrote:
>>Also reminds me of "programmers" who can "write code" but seem unable to
>>read other people's code. Has anyone else had this experience? I run into
>>this sort of person all the time . . .
>
>I quite often have problems reading other peoples code. This is typically
>due to either
-snip-
>or
>2) Frustrations as I read the code, thinking all the time "this isn't the
>way to do this", "why the **** did you do this", etc, etc.
>Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au

I can symphatize with this. Being a prof, I get to read many
homework assignments. But I learned many years ago that to do justice
to the students you have to stay open, forget about your own
methods (and yes, I feel rather strongly on the subject of "appropriate
methods") and make a honest effort to find out what they were trying
to do. Sometimes, they actually exhibit very creative thinking.

carlos.


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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 08:01:34 GMT