Re:If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (2011)
by csours on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:39AM
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I wonder if your students are new enough at programming that they don't understand what exact matching means? Even if you verbally say "exact match" they may not have enough context to realize that means character by character examination.
We've done programming long enough that this is ingrained to a very deep degree, but for them, it still looks like english.
Anecdote: I had a college instructor who thought it was reasonable to write a TCP-IP program from scratch without reference using Winsock2. I'm sure he could do it, and I could probably do it now, but as a student, not so much.
We've done programming long enough that this is ingrained to a very deep degree, but for them, it still looks like english.
Anecdote: I had a college instructor who thought it was reasonable to write a TCP-IP program from scratch without reference using Winsock2. I'm sure he could do it, and I could probably do it now, but as a student, not so much.