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

[Daniel Ajoy]

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
>