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- From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Please Help Me Keep My Job!
- Message-ID: <rdippold.722220093@qualcom>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <1992Nov19.173301.3870@kpc.com> <1992Nov19.224135.28721@oz.plymouth.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:41:33 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.173301.3870@kpc.com> hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch) writes:
- >> My manager has asked me to finish several projects by the end of this
- >>year, and they're really hard! I told her I could do them, but now I don't
- >>know; they're pretty tricky. I'm sure other people have done stuff like
- >>this, so why should I reinvent the wheel? Why not use the resources of the
- >>net?
-
- >more than happy to take it. This is sort of like asking someone else to
- >do you homework for you. Isn't that like 'plagiarism'? Sounds to me
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Yep. If you picked this up on comp.graphics instead of comp.lang.c,
- you missed the following gem:
-
-
- |From: 2644danticoj@vms.csd.mu.edu
- |My name is Cetera and I am new to this network. I am anxiously awaiting
- |graduating Marquette this December, but there is an obstacle in my way. I must
- |first pass this math class in which I must program in C. I don't know this
- |language, and now must write several programs before the end of the year. The
- |course teaches data structures, which I have no problems understanding.
- |However, all homework is programmed in C and because of an adminstrative
- |loop-hole, I was enrolled in the class with no knowledge of the needed
- |programming language. So, can you help me write these programs, thereby
- |allowing me to graduate and go on to serve my country as an officer on a
- |nuclear submarine? Please???? My future depends on it. By the way, I will be
- |using a UNIX machine with a STUDSYS compiler. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- | [his homework list which he wants us to do for him]
-
- I don't see the problem with picking up "Rookie Programming" or other
- good introductory programming books and learning the basics of C. On
- the other hand, hey, what could go wrong on a nuclear sub?
- --
- I do the work of three men - Larry, Moe, and Curly.
-