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Brad Ford
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Joined: Mar 22, 2001
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Just a thought. While I think the service is more than worth $200 (easy to say since I started long before May 1st), there will be many students that will be deprived because of it. I propose setting up a new 'nitpicking' forum. New students that can't afford/don't want to pay the $200 can post their solutions to be nitpicked by fellow students. As long as they know they're not being nitpicked 'professionally'... As for the rest of us still working on the assignments, we'll have to rely on the honour system not to peek. I think that this would not be too difficult to implement, just set up some rules - perhaps even make people get their own geocities or some such site so that space is not an issue.
What does everyone think?
Greg Harris
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Joined: Apr 12, 2001
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not that i am qualified yet, but i would not mind "picking" someone else's code in a forum environment... but like you said, they have to understand that we are not professionals.
i find that i learn more by helping other people anyway, so this would be good for me as well.


what?
bill bozeman
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Joined: Jun 30, 2000
Posts: 1070
Brad, I agree with you on both counts when you say that the $200 dollars is worth the service, and that many people will not be able to pay and will be deprived of this service. That was one of my major concerns.
That is why we started the waiting list idea. Once we get the number of students down to a reasonable level, say 15 or so, then we will start to allow new students who are on the waiting list. Wait will probably be long so that is why you can also pay the money and join right away.
I like your other idea also, but I feel it misses out on some of the one to one communication that goes on, and there is always the people who will just look at someone elses code and just go from there. True you don't gain much that way, but there are probably many of us who would have snuck a peek at Java 4b after the 10th submission
Bill
Marilyn de Queiroz
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What Bill said.


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