Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Peter Ammon
Date : Thu Jul 28 2005 11:49 am

Randy Howard wrote:
> 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.

Anyone who claims no trouble from CVS has yet to use it.

-Peter

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