[MWForum]how much MW homework help should this list provide?

[Lauren Pacini]

Thanks, Daniel, now I understand. The teacher in me
always answers a question with a question. I did not
realize the part about the off-list posts.

Lauren

--- Daniel Ajoy <dajoy@openworldlearning.org> wrote:
> Hi Lauren,
> 
> I was me who answered your question and the original
> question, too.
> 
> I answered your question because you didn't address
> you
> question to her, you addressed it to me. I was only 
> forwarding that message to the mwforum list 
> (I shouldn't have signed it, though. My bad)
> 
> And you didn't sent it to her, you only sent it to
> the list.
> As Wendy alerted use a while back, those "ask and
> expert" 
> questions are submitted from a web form and the
> submitter
> often does not belong to the list.
> 
> I answered the original question because I thought
> it would be hard to confuse my answer with a program
> 
> a student might do.
> 
> This is the code:
> 
> to multi.poly :nsides
> clean pd
> 
> make "sides 3
> 
> repeat :nsides - 2 [
>   poly     make "sides :sides + 1
> ]
> 
> end
> 
> to poly
> repeat :sides [forward 60 right 360 / :sides]
> end
> 
> 
> Things I did different from what is usual are:
> 
> * "poly" has no inputs
> * my indentation style
> * my use forward and right instead of their
> shortcuts
> * "repeat :nsides - 2" instead of recursion
> 
> I submitted such a strange program because the 
> requirements were strange. They were strange enough
> that I thought only a teacher and her student would 
> know what the teacher expected from the student. And
> if
> the student didn't know what the teacher was
> expecting,
> I think it would be good if the student shows the
> teacher my program because then the teacher _would_
> know that the student didn't get what the teacher
> was
> expecting.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 26 Feb 2004 at 12:17, Lauren Pacini wrote:
> 
> > Wendy,
> > 
> > Thanks for the pinted post! When I tried to draw
> out
> > the author of one of those posts to begin an
> > instructive dialogue, another member of this group
> > answered my question for her and then answered her
> > question. Had it been one of my students I would
> have
> > been less than thrilled. It seems to me that the
> value
> > of Microworlds is the logical thought processes
> that
> > it instills.
> > 
> > Lauren
> > 
> 
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