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- From: Mark Charette <charette@mika.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Very Simple <maths.h> problem...
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 15:29:19 -0500
- Organization: Mika Systems, Inc
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- Usman Muzaffar wrote:
- >
- >
- > I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind forcing people to read FAQs.
- > It doesn't help. Instead of getting the same stupid newbie questions over and
- > over again, we just get angry experts yelling at people to read FAQs.
-
- A very long time ago, when I taught computer programming, I told
- my classes there was such a thing as a stupid question. Not doing the
- reading assignments and asking a question the next day about a subject
- that was explicitly covered in the textbook ('is the word "for"
- in the C language?' ) showed me and the class how stupid the person
- was. A question showing the book had been read but there was a lack of
- understanding was a good question, and one of the reasons a teacher
- is there.
- --
- Mark Charette "Languages come; languages go--only Fortran is for
- Mika Systems, Inc the ages." - Jim Glass
- charette@mika.com http://www.mika.com
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