On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, der Mouse wrote:
> When we pointed out that it was unreasonably low, he steadfastly stood
> by the number his calculator had churned out, not even realizing that
> it couldn't be anywhere near the answer to the question we wanted
> answered.
In my C class, one of my assignments calls for displaying
some information, then skipping EXACTLY TWO lines, and
then displaying some more. Invariably, I get some students
who have skipped ONE line.
When I point out that the gap is visibly obviously NOT two lines,
they insist that it MUST BE 2 lines, in spite of what they see,
because they had \n\n in the printf. (part of the exercise was
to make them notice what happens when an output ends in mid line.)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sun Jun 20 2004 - 15:38:24 BST