Student Warning!
However, for those of you have been out of school for a while, things have changed. The difference is that for some reason most kids believe that the only way to solve any challenge is to do a search on Google, and then copy the results. I see this way too often.
It always seems to us old fxxxx that the young kids are corrupt, lazy, and willing to take any shortcut.
If every person had to learn all the knowledge of the world starting from scratch, on his own, without any history, mathematics, or literature to read and study, then we would have a dumb world. Learning from others is the only shortcut that allows the world to continue advancing and not have to reinvent all the old knowledge each and every generation.
Do we so easily forget our own youth, and what we were willing to do to avoid homework? Did you ever see somebody looking over a smart kid's shoulder and copying some homework? I think that only the
methods have changed, not the character of the kids.
Kids are products of their environment, and if computers are there, they will be used for their intended purpose to make life easier, including doing homework and finding solutions on the Internet.
I don't find that all bad, but an acceptance of inevitable change. Changes will happen, and some people will embrace and use change, while others will try to hold on to the old ways as long as possible.
If I were teaching, I would try to teach students to use the Internet appropriately, to find help but not to substitute other's work for my own.
I think the smarter students will continue to do their own work, perhaps using the net to check their own answers, while the dumber ones will continue to copy by using the easiest method. Thus is life. The bright ones will go on to be shining stars, while the others take the lower tier jobs.
:reup:Student Warning: Every one of you that copies programs from here WITHOUT first doing it yourself, will find yourself doing one of those lower tier jobs. If you are willing to take shortcuts in your homework, then you would probably do that on the job also, and I had just as soon not have to work with you. Thus you should never be allowed to enter the field, and one way to keep you out is to give you answers to the homework, so that you never learn how to write a program. If you always copy, then you will be one less competitor in the job market for me to worry about!
