I was helping a student two days ago outside of my class. He is learning to program in C#. He is very clueless, so I took pity on him and wrote up a skeleton piece of code so he could go flush it out and finish it according to his assignment.
I left parts of it that I knew he could do on his own non-functional, and one hard part I put in so it wouldn't distract him and/or slow him down. He came in today, and tells me he had to have his teacher fix my code, because the code I gave him was broken. That made me so angry I almost chopped his head off.
First of all, I didn’t have to help him. Second of all, I told him exactly why my skeleton code would not run, and what he needed to do on his own to fix it and finish it in accordance with his assignment. He didn’t do it.
And finally, I got him started, and his teacher finished/fixed it up. So he effectively did not do a single thing, and he has the audacity to come and tell me my code was broken. I am still angry. I feel personally insulted.
tell his teacher that you wrote the code and not the other guy, and don't stab him any where because I think that is illegal, expect in Texas. I would just not help the guy any more and let it go, stress kills.
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tell his teacher that you wrote the code and not the other guy, and don't stab him any where because I think that is illegal, expect in Texas. I would just not help the guy any more and let it go, stress kills other the people causing it first.
Fixed(the code!)
I say get a foam sword(one of the hard foam swords) and stab him over and over with that one.
Don't stab in in the eye. Stab him somewhere that will hurt but won't permanently disable him. This way it's his word against yours.
be careful all of this could be admitted as evident
Sorry, as a GM I don't allow called shots. :}
If you stab him in both eyes, he probably wouldn't be able to pick you out of a police line-up.get his ears too, so he can't identify your voice.
Also wear gloves. Gloves you don't mind burning.
*waves hi to the judge*
Better yet wear glove that don't fit very well, and then your defense could be that the gloves don't fit.
I should have taken the >Narcissistic Rage< feat at a lower level, then I could have went all Tarrasque on him.
Tell him I said that the blivious coding in the neurons of his actual brain is obviously broken, and unfortunately, unlike the (whatever; I only sorta know what you're talking about) code, there's nothing you or modern medicine can do to help him with his shortcoming.
Furthermore, he should start practicing for sales; he's successfully deceived himself which is all you really have to do, so the rest of the rubes it will take to make his monthly quota shouldn't be a problem.
"Oh, it didn't work? I guess I don't know it as much as I thought. Well I guess you are on your own then. Sorry." ;D
Along the same lines of pres man.
"I told you it would not run. If you are not going to listen, I see no reason to try and help you."
Along them same lines...
"DIE! DIE! DIE!"
I agree with the poodle. I'd go a smidge further:
"I told you the code was just a skeleton, and that it wouldn't run. You needed to flesh things out yourself. Of course it wouldn't work when you took it to the teacher. I wasn't doing your homework for you, I was trying to help you out. Now your teacher has finished what I started, and you've done nothing. I tried being helpful-once. Next time, I won't feel so kind. Perhaps instead of taking it to your teacher, you could actually do the coding yourself?"
Meh, ignore him and if he asks for help again, LAUGH VERY LOUDLY as you walk away.
You learned the truth of the statement "No good deed goes unpunished'.
Rack it up as experience and move along. If said student comes to you again, you decline to assist him, telling him nicely or not nicely as you are so moved as to why you are no longer going to help him further.
Then tell him to hit the bricks.
Trust me, he is not worth the time and effort of getting worked up about it.
I deal with this kind of stuff on a daily basis... so I feel you. And your urge to kill him on a gory way...
*resist urges to go grab a shiv*
I know I should leave well enough alone.
You learned the truth of the statement "No good deed goes unpunished'.
I understand the sentiment behind this, but I fear it just leaves us jaded. I agree that you can use it as a learning experience. Next time someone seeks your help, ensure they are willing to put in the effort.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." --Lao Tzu
Of course, this does not apply if it is Mr. Fishy you give.
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I was helping a student two days ago outside of my class. He is learning to program in C#. He is very clueless, so I took pity on him and wrote up a skeleton piece of code so he could go flush it out and finish it according to his assignment.
I left parts of it that I knew he could do on his own non-functional, and one hard part I put in so it wouldn't distract him and/or slow him down. He came in today, and tells me he had to have his teacher fix my code, because the code I gave him was broken. That made me so angry I almost chopped his head off.
First of all, I didn’t have to help him. Second of all, I told him exactly why my skeleton code would not run, and what he needed to do on his own to fix it and finish it in accordance with his assignment. He didn’t do it.
And finally, I got him started, and his teacher finished/fixed it up. So he effectively did not do a single thing, and he has the audacity to come and tell me my code was broken. I am still angry. I feel personally insulted.
Next time give him fully working code that will, I dunno, put up porn or pics of bewbies...for this to work you have to hand it off to him on the way to class, as late as possible. Just tell him you were up all night working on it. Hilarity will ensue, I promise!