On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 10:56:52 AM UTC-8, Grant Edwards wrote: > If the student is actively trying to avoid learning something, there's > nothing you can do to help them. They're just wasting their own time > and money.
This is part of the reason why interviews for software developer jobs have gotten so crazy. We have to weed out the impostors after they graduate. > The fun part is giving them a solution that's so obscure and "clever" > that it technically meets the stated requirement but is so far from > what the instructor wanted that they don't get credit for it (and > there's no way the student will be able explain how it works to the > instructor). It doesn't even need to be an obscure solution, it just needs to make use of things you don't expect a novice programmer to use, like lambdas. A recent example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.lang.python/0gYm2g3BA2A/s9xbBG1GAwAJ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
