20 Jun
2004
20 Jun
'04
8:38 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, der Mouse wrote:
When we pointed out that it was unreasonably low, he
steadfastly stood
by the number his calculator had churned out, not even realizing that
it couldn't be anywhere near the answer to the question we wanted
answered.
In my C class, one of my assignments calls for displaying
some information, then skipping EXACTLY TWO lines, and
then displaying some more. Invariably, I get some students
who have skipped ONE line.
When I point out that the gap is visibly obviously NOT two lines,
they insist that it MUST BE 2 lines, in spite of what they see,
because they had \n\n in the printf. (part of the exercise was
to make them notice what happens when an output ends in mid line.)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com