I can't speak for all down voting, but...
Doing someone else's homework, in it's entirety, is bad in many ways: - The person asking will learn nothing, or very little
- it can be construed to be cheating
- it will encourage others to ask
- and lots of people asking us to do homework assignments will end up harming this community
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First of all, thanks for a reply. I agree with 'it will encourage others to ask' and 'lots of people asking us to do homework assignments will end up harming this community'. We explained him why he should learn it. Many things were said. I just thought it was the time to tell him how to do it and let him do whatever he wants to do with the solution. BTW it's not that bad to point out a solution when someone learns new things. I agreee I gave him the done assigment but still... it could help him to understand what he was asked for and do the next task by himself. It's really about how much to help. I think we can discuss it forever. I agree we shouldn't tell others how to do their homework, we should help to correct mistakes in one's code but not to create it as someone said in the thread. Monks warned him and explained him why he had to learn perl. That's why I posted that script for him. BTW I saw questions like 'is there any module to do ...' it's the same sort of questions. I think we should answer such questions. I agree this situation was different as he stated he didn't want to learn. Anyways it's really should be posted to 'PerlMonks Discussion'. I'm a little afraid to post it there. I just think it will get negative feedback as it did and that's about it, nothing else. I just do not understand the rules of the monastery sometimes. That's just me... I'm sorry if I broke them. I'll do my best to be a 'good monk' hehe. Thank you again!
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He's falling under the spell of Perl Monks already.
I wrote some stuff I was going to post here but this node already covers it Why do I get such negative votes?. In addition; Complaining about down votes is the fastest way to get down votes. I didn't down vote this because you were asking a question but you may want to avoid this area in the future. You are doing very well, keep at it, keep learning, we'll be here.
You could always try a compliment on my clever signature;-)
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$|=1,select$,,$,,$,,1e-1;print;redo}
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