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I'm sure you are a good teacher, and want only the best for your students, but...if you sent them all here with a list of stupid tasks (you know the ones "A group of pirates have...", "ranesh has discovered the power of compounding...", "A robot must move...") then you are an idiot, and you deserve to be beaten with a large stick until you wish I had never been born.
If you didn't send them here, then you need to control your students - because it would seem that not even one of them has bothered to try and do it themselves. Fail the lot.
Frankly, I'm sick of seeing the same assignments being pasted up here...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I guess even pirates have to keep up with the times and need one or another bit of software for their raids. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Gah! They are getting posted so much that they are now showing in the moderation queue as spam! 
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You forgot something. In case the teacher did not send the students here, they should not only fail but also be beaten with the big stick.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Shift part of the blame to the text book writer - this person did not care to update the problem statements over the years, or updated only marginally.
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Well, I wish the web had been useful when I was at Uni, mind you the fact that it wasn't led me to think my way around problems, rather than ask on-line. A friend of mine who is a teacher has got the stage of saying you will get a low mark if I see the question on any of the boards. The problem is the current way (certainly from the IT point) is how to use Office and how to ask questions of Google, some times I see questions posed I think home work then have a go at solving them myself and not answering the question just to see if I can! 
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I hate to say this - because it's almost certainly a hideous generalisation - but it would seem from QA that this is what is happening: the people coming "into the industry" are either not being taught to think, or not being encouraged to think. And at the risk of being labelled a closet racist a certain cultural group does appear to stand out in this regard.
Certainly, the number of posters we are getting that expect any code they find to work immediately without any changes seems to be increasing. Almost as if the increase in IC processing power is being balanced by a decrease in human processing power!
This is probably not the case, just that the number of people being "taught" IT is increasing, and the ones that can or do try to think don't post questions!
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Perhaps it reflects the direction the industry is taking: just crank out useless "business apps" coded to spec, as fast as possible and as cheaply as possible. No thinking. Just coding. No programmers either, just codemonkeys, they're cheaper. The industry needs monkeys, so monkeys are getting trained.
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Ooooh Dear!, I can see problems down the line...
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Quote: And at the risk of being labelled a closet racist a certain cultural group does appear to stand out in this regard.
Mind you, I don't think it cultural from my experience each culture has it's own set that shouldn't be allowed near a PC!
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That is why smartphones are so successful!
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I can partialy confirm your "fear"... I am travelling to that part of the world often and in my experience is a quite extended "setting" over there (sadly I am very tempted to say "standard" instead of "quite extended")
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Are you saying that the teacher is the one who must try harder?
Try Grapple for Android, it has a naked pixel guy in it!
Also, loads of blood and some snakes.
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Partly, yes - I think I am.
And the other part is a general impression that being lazy and careless is part of adolescence...and probably always has been 
But when I was young, it was easier to work things out for myself than go to the library, try and find the right book, find the actual information, and read it. Now you can just google, and that does mean that it's a lot easier to try once, give up looking, then try to get someone else to do it for you.
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Dear sir,
Please provide code for JavaScript prototype example.
I'd post that with all the grammar and spelling errors like 'plz' and 'exmaple', but I'm trying to keep the joke civilized 
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Dear Sir,
Plz SND CODZZZZ URGNTZZZZ!!!!!!
Would have done!
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Great, now you've ruined my weekend... 
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Those are some spectacularly bad assignments.
While certainly I wouldn't blame the teacher for their being posted here, there was that one teacher who instructed his students to post their solutions as articles here... 
Anyway, here are some thoughts on why a teacher might post assignments here:
0) To see what reception such posts receive here -- certainly a teacher would be pleased to see that "we will not do your homework for you".
1) To see what code "experienced professionals" will produce, to use as a benchmark for what gets turned in.
2) To have code to compare against to see if a student simply copied-and-pasted the best answer available.
However, I think last night's barrage may have simply been college kids having a little fun. Like making crank calls.
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dude - take the opportunity to troll the smeg out of them
For example - i like to point them in the direction of Christan Graus
bryce
MCAD
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If I currently have Windows 7 Professional installed with Secure Boot turned off in UEFI. Then I upgrade to Windows 10 Professional, does anyone know if I should then turn on Secure Boot to make all good with the Microsoft world, or will this break things?
If I am installing Windows 7 Professional on a new computer for the Windows 10 Upgrade, do I have to install all the Windows Updates like I do before installing the Windows 8.1 Update on Windows 8?
Or do I have to do the Windows 10 Upgrade to get my key and then wipe the computer, turn on Secure Boot in UEFI and then install Windows 10 cleanly on the computer?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You don't need to turn on secure boot at all.
The only update that needs to be installed is Service Pack 1, I had 62 updates waiting when I did the upgrade and there was no problem.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
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Rod Kemp wrote:
Thanks for the reply Rod. Do you know if they recommend Secure Boot and that it isn't required if you're upgrading?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If you're upgrading it's not required.
As far as does MS recommend using it, well yes they do, considering that all new machines must have it turned on and it is up to the manufacturer of the machine if they put the option into the BIOS to turn it off.
*** Edit ***
However if you turn it on after install/updating, if may or may not configure correctly.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
modified 8-Aug-15 8:49am.
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I'm looking to get a new PC. Not sure how much I want to spend yet somewhere on the more affordable end. Does anyone know of any good sites where they allow you to customize your PC and are affordable? What do you guys use when looking for a new PC?
[Edit]Thank you everyone for your feedback. Good stuff.  [/Edit]
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
modified 7-Aug-15 22:32pm.
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dell.com or amazon.com
I lost all faith in TigerDirect after they hit my CC for nearly $2,000 for an item I hadn't ordered - because of a fault in their system which they took three weeks to admit to and then only after legal threats.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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