| Norman L. DeForest 2005-08-30, 6:58 pm |
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Marc Bissonnette wrote:
[snip]
> LOL. Actually, looking back, I rather ambarassed myself by getting all
> indignant at the "unhelpful" nature of the regulars in comp.lang.perl.misc.
>
> Once I got over myself, though, I realized that the guidelines/FAQs, etc
> really *do* help one become a better programmer. That, and the fact that
> more often than not, in figuring out the right *question* to ask, one tends
> to come up with the right answer, before posting to the ng :)
[snip]
I remember reading about a university support desk for student programmers
that had a teddy bear in the reception area. An ironclad rule was that
any student wanting help with his/her program had to describe the problem
to the teddy bear in complete detail before asking the actual support
people. Just describing the problem to the bear was often enough for a
student to realise where he/she was going wrong. Apparently the teddy
bear was responsible for solving more than half of the support desk
enquiries.
--
``Why don't you find a more appropiate newsgroup to post this tripe into?
This is a meeting place for a totally differnt kind of "vision impairment".
Catch my drift?'' -- "jim" in alt.disability.blind.social regarding an
off-topic religious/political post, March 28, 2005
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