My main job was physics and calculus but the Pascal guy quit just before classes started. I was asked if I could do it and said OK. The first thing I had to do was deal with a student who wanted course credit because he "already knew the language". I gave him a ~100 line project to do over the weekend - nothing too tricky from an algorithmic point of view, just a basic test of his coding ability.
He submitted the results three days later: no comments, no blank lines, no indentations, no input error checking, old Fortran style x,y,z,a,b,c constants and variables, ... He was seriously upset when I gave him my opinion of his coding style - he had to take the course and sat at the back of the room with this sullen look on his face all term. Did OK at the end, maybe average. |
