[Tutor] Abrupt silence instead of an exchange.

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

I note that "Julia Phindile" asked a vague badly formatted incomplete
question about an additive series but has not followed up HERE even to say
NEVER MIND. So I see no point in continuing to engage with them especially
if they are gone. I am curious if anyone has exchanged emails privately with
them and perhaps resolved things.

 

My life lately has been getting quite full and crowded and I have so many
ways to waste time. So why even reply especially if others here are very
capable and often more than me.

 

I may be way off base, but suggesting someone could do a search of the
internet and get an answer is not out of line for very general questions and
what makes more sense here is showing an implementation that does not quite
work and wondering if we might be able to point them at a way to continue.
You can trivially find code in any language for Fibonacci including python
and of course all kinds of explanations of what it is, what it can be used
for and linked to and so on. And if it is related to a programming class,
some of that would have been covered. Anyone sending to this list must have
found it somehow and ideally be in something like a python class or be
reading a tutorial.

 

So no reply without explanation suggests a lack of interest, or perhaps
someone reaching out to multiple resources hoping for a quick but detailed
reply.

 

I may well be wrong but I keep seeing patterns even when there are none.

 

Somewhere in between, but often valid, is questions here on how to tighten
up and improve something that works such as making it more efficient or
alternate ways to do the same thing. As we have found, some people have
perhaps abused the forum for their own purposes or asked questions as they
were learning while giving us little projects of their own built for no
specific purpose and thus often harder for us to reply to as we wonder why
anyone would do it that way or what it was accomplishing. At least those can
be challenges!

 

I don't mind, and even appreciate, some discussions, including seeing how
one language is designed differently from others, but the main purpose here
is supposedly to provide some help to others wishing to learn but not doing
the work for them.

 

For that, I charge $666/hour albeit I have had no takers! Then again, I have
made no offers! LOL!