As Julia gains traction, there is likely to be more courses and therefore homework assignments and questions about homework assignments in Julia. Homework questions are special, in that the goal is not to find the solution but to help the person who asked the question to figure out the solution and…

What would be advantage to having that here, as opposed to directing such questions to stackoverflow?

[image] mkborregaard: What would be advantage to having that here, as opposed to directing such questions to stackoverflow? Homework questions are not always easy to spot, if the person posting them forgets to mention that it’s homework. Hence it would be hard to know what questions to redi…

[image] Per: the person posting them forgets to mention that it’s homework “forgets” is a benevolent interpretation :wink:

Yes. That’s why I linked there in the first post. :wink:

Ah, indeed. apologies. note to self: improve reading comprehension.

Should there be a "homework" category?

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avik October 16, 2017, 9:25am 6

Should probably point out the earlier discussion here. Homework policy

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Should there be a "homework" category?

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