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- From: mac@cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: WANTED URGENTLY!!PLEASE!!
- Date: 20 Dec 92 15:26:26 GMT
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- someone writes:
- >My sister is doing a Fortran77 project on the game Othello. Our command
- >of the Fortran language is not powerful enough to write a good program.
- >Since this project will take up 50% of her final examinations, she is
- >very worried right now. Can anyone send a sample of the algorithm to
- >rescue her? Please send to either ....
-
- I'm bothered by this request, but maybe I just don't understand.
-
- It appears that the project is imposed from above; I can imagine
- several situations:
-
- a) "For your final project in this freshman-level FORTRAN class,
- implement this algorithm for the game of Othello in FORTRAN."
-
- If this were the situation, I don't understand why the URGENT
- request for an algorithm for the game of Othello.
-
-
- b) "For your final project in this senior-level ALGORITHM DESIGN class,
- implement the game of Othello."
-
- If this is the situation, perhaps the intent of the imposer is to
- see if the "sister" can do "original" algorithm-design work, in
- which case it doesn't seem ethical for ANYONE to help her, beyond,
- perhaps, answering simple questions on FORTRAN syntax or semantics
- or the rules of the game of Othello.
-
-
- c) "For your Ph.D. degree, develop an algorithm to play the game of
- Othello, for which no algorithm has ever been developed before."
-
- If this is the situation, again, it doesn't seem ethical for ANYONE
- to provide algorithms, etc. Besides, if such an algorithm already
- exists, this shouldn't be Ph.D.-level work anyway.
-
-
- d) If the project is self-chosen, perhaps other possibilities (such as
- self-choosing a different project) might be appropriate.
-
- As I said at the first, maybe I just don't understand.
- --Myron.
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