Tom Pledger wrote:
I'm curious about what the people on this list consider appropriate, as responses to homework questions. Even if there isn't a consensus, it may be interesting to see how opinion is divided.
Please consider the following.
(A) Give a perfect answer. (B) Give a subtly flawed answer. (C) Give an obfuscated answer. (D) Give a critique of what the questioner has tried so far. (E) Give relevant general advice without answering the specific question.
I mean them to include giving references, e.g. a Wiki URL to relevant general advice would count as (E).
I think this depends on the situation. There is a big difference between "I am having some trouble with this homework problem. This is what I did. Could someone give me some tips? Thanks" and "How do I write a map function in Haskell?" For the first case, I would vote for D and/or E as appropriate. For the second case, I vote for (F) Ignore. -- Matthew Donadio (m.p.donadio@ieee.org)