Re: source code for a program

From: Ryan Stewart (zzanNOtozz_at_gSPAMo.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:37:31 -0600

"Paul O'Donnell" <odonnellp@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.03.10.14.01.41.187892@rogers.com...
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:42:45 +0000, Paul O'Donnell wrote:
>
>
> > Usenet is full of judgemental people who have nothing better to do than
> > police people who post to more than one newsgroup. Yawn.
> >
> > We don't even know what sort of code he/she is looking for yet. If he
> > does post with more detail I am willing to help him if I can. Why the
> > assumption that he is not writing code? We don't know that. All we know
> > is that he is looking for some source code to solve a problem. What he
> > is looking for may be very complicated and he is stuck and trying to
> > learn. I give him the benefit of the doubt.
>
> I am sorry. There is something wrong with my newsreader and I initially
> did not see the entire original post. I only saw the first paragraph. Now
> that I have seen it I would say that his very well defined task is not the
> sort of programming problem that should require the borrowing and
> modification of someone else's code. He should just get started solving
> the problem himself, post what he is able to do and hopefully someone in
> the group can help him if he gets stuck. If the problem is too much for
> him then he needs to go over his notes or the textbook and review. If that
> is too much for him then perhaps he should reconsider his ability to be a
> programmer. The problem is fairly simple and should not be all that
> daunting to someone who has been programming Java for 7 weeks. And to the
> person who called his instructor and "idiot" is right, if in fact the
> instructor said it was ok to look for other people's code in this
> particular context.
>
> My apologies for the flame. I was only wanting to defend someone I thought
> had been treated unfairly, but now I can see that much of the criticism
> was fair.
>
> I've made myself look like an idiot on Usenet yet again. <blush>
>
> Paul
Heh, no problem. Happens to us all. Or at least to you and me. Basically
what you said in your last post is exactly what I told him: the problem
isn't that hard; work on it, and if you have problems, post here.

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