Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 11:37 pm

CBFalconer wrote
(in article <42E7FE07.DBAD9BE7@yahoo.com>):

> Randy Howard wrote:
>> Ben Pfaff wrote
>>> lilburne <lilburne@godzilla.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I found that producing 10-15 different implementations of an
>>>> assignment held a challenge that the assignment itself did not.
>>> 
>>> I think you'd find that our projects for CS 140 provide
>>> sufficient challenge for a 10-week quarter.  Check them out:
>>> http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/index.html
>> 
>> Outstanding.  That should keep people busy without a need for
>> boredom avoidance during the course.  :-)
> 
> Agreed.  It also eases the students into working in cooperation
> with the aid of such things as CVS.

Yes, but anyone that passes that course isn't going to have 
trouble learning CVS, with or without being exposed to it in a 
class.  I would hope that apart from the few cheaters Ben has 
made reference to, anyone graduating from Stanford isn't going 
to have trouble with CVS.


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Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)

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