Chiron Paixos wrote:
Too late!
Well Thomas didn't report you but I'm more selfish than him when it
comes to my degrees. So I just sent an e-Mail to sa****@cs.albany.edu
who might be very interested.
Chiron...
They may have gotten more mail than they really wanted. I wrote
as follows (headers trimmed considerably):
-------- Original Message --------
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:03:39 -0500
To:
ra**@cs.albany.edu
CC:
as****@cs.albany.edu,
sa****@cs.albany.edu
Subject: Helping students with course work
Dear Professor Ravi:
Do you have guidelines/preferences/policies concerning outside
help for students enrolled in your comp sci courses? If so, would
you consider adding them (in HTML format, please) to your website
so that requests like:
news://news.qwest.net:119/33********...*@dbforums.com
Can be properly handled by the programming community. The
regulars on news:comp.lang.c normally try to avoid doing
students' homework for them; but some published guidelines might
be of help to all concerned.
Side question: Are you and your TAs readily available to students?
-------- End Original Message --------
<rant>
My intent was not to create grief for aj; but to encourage this
faculty to realize that their ivory tower is parked in the middle
of the real world, with which at least their students interact.
Perhaps I expect too much of the teaching community; but I /do/
expect them to provide this kind of guidance to (at least)
students. Absent this guidance, I see little difference between
going to the library and going to the Internet for
additional/helpful information.
I'm also aware that some "teachers" prefer not to be "bothered"
with students on a one-to-one basis and need encouragement to
become more involved.
<curse>
When their web site designer goes a-browsing, may (s)he only find
pages containing links to PDF files!
</curse>
</rant>
--
Morris Dovey
West Des Moines, Iowa USA
C links at
http://www.iedu.com/c