having marked assignments, I hate it when the silly fuckers can't read the question.Especially in third year uni.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:53,
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Not wrong.It's amazing how many undergrads don't appear to be able to read and will spend an hour avoiding a thirty-minute task...
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:54,
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I sense you have tutored a practical class.Here's a story from my office mate, the text of the practical (statistics, computational 'practical') was something along the lines of "Define a vector, ie:v"
So the student typed ie:v and wondered why it wasn't working.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:01,
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So the student typed ie:v and wondered why it wasn't working.
That would be great syntactic sugar for alias though:>>reallyLongVariableName = 3.5 i.e. x
>>y = x ** 2
(>>y = x ** 2
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:09,
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Integrate across the lion between -π and +π.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:56,
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Im guessing the question wasn't about whether he knew what a line wasbut if knew how to measure out 12cm, seeing as though he drew a lion that's exactly 12cm long, that shows that he knows what 12cm is.
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 11:59,
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Not on marking scheme. No mark for you. *draws big red zero* *enjoys slightly*I'm not really berating the kid, it's the sort of smart-arsed thing that I'd do too...
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Mon 5 Apr 2010, 12:03,
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I had a dream the other daythat I was giving a talk on Napoleon when the audience actually wanted one on Napoleon III... How embarrassing.
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