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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: literacy?
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:56:04 EST
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In regard to comments a while back about teaching this'n'that about
computers vs. other skills, I thought folks might enjoy this excerpt, found
in net.lang.c.  I had to re-read it several times before I could get past
the parse and try to find some meaning:
> 
> 	Yeah!  The last CS cource I took, where the grader (who didn't
> understand "C" to save her life) chocked of about 25% of style grade
> because she liked little idiosynchronisities like correct spelling :-)
> in comments and big blocks around comments, et cetera, also left no password
> set on her account....
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