Re: RPG instruction

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: JoJo <jojo@pulse.net>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: RPG instruction


Are there some hot topics you would like to see covered to better prepare
students for the "real world"?


Not a topic, but a technique... (and this was not my idea, a friend
mentioned it one time as a teaching aid)

Step 1: Have everyone in the class write a non-tivial program and get it
working.
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.

Ground rule 1: the original developer is dead, no help, only comments in the
code to go with
Ground rule 2: nobody in the class knows in advance that this is comming

If this isn't real world, in any language, then I don't know what is.  ;-)

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"Those who would give up essential Liberty,
  to purchase a little temporary Safety,
  deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

     - The Papers of Ben Franklin



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