"Teach Me" is a phrase I've found myself hearing quite often, and one I've come to loath. "Teach Me", I have found, usually means "I want to learn something with little effort on my part". Students who come with this attitude often become weights attach to the backs of other students, forcing you to spend extra time teaching and re-teaching a lesson when other students are ready to progress - then finding that the "Teach Me" student has moved on finding it still to much effort and sometimes a good student has been lost because of his lack of progress, lack of steady improvement.

This is less to say anything about the AM who posted this, being as I've never meet him, and more to do with the annoyance and wasted time such a phrase has cost me (both as teacher and student). I suggest that a better phrase, better attitude perhaps, would be "Help me to Learn".

As for the actually question: How about a snippet or some example code, showing the error?

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce

In reply to Re: teach me Chart::Pie by kutsu
in thread teach me Chart::Pie by Anonymous Monk

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