Re: RPG instruction

[Scott.Lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Step 2: Have everyone in the class hand their program to the person on the
>right (or left) and ring shift (last guy on row takes to first guy on
row).
>Step 3: Have everyone in the class make a non-trivial change to the
program
>just handed them.

The problem I see with this (in an academic environment, where grades mean
everything), is that a lousy student can receive the program written well
by a good student, so he fares well. Then the good student receives a
*really* lousy program to modify.

Granted this is what happens in the real world, but when grades and GPA's
are so important, it's a bit unfair to make the good student work ten times
as hard as another student just because he received bad code.

>Another way to implement your technique would be to give all the students
>the same working program and have them modify it.  Stage one: give them
>a "good" program to work with.  Stage two: give them a horrible one;
>ideally
>one that has already been badly maintained by a different programmer than
>the original.

This is much fairer.

Scott Lindstrom
Zenith Electronics

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