[Tutor] Need Help

[Marc Poulin]

--- Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Michael P. Reilly wrote:
> 
> >   Another aspect of your assignment will be to be
> able to use this
> > functionality from the "command-line".  This
> means: without asking questions
> > from the user, but input is being passed as
> arguments.  
> 
> John should get clarification from his instructor,
> but I did not read it 
> that way.  I read that requirement to "support a
> command line query" as 
> meaning the program should prompt the user to enter
> a query command; as 
> opposed to hard-coding the transactions in the coe
> itself (as is sometimes 
> done at an intro level).
> 
> 
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This may be the most important lesson to learn from
this exercise: even experienced programmers can (and
do) interpret requirements differently. When in doubt,
ask!



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