An absolute howler today! A group of students submitted a broken Group Project and attached the following note to the submission: (My emphasis)
I am submiting my group project in the form of a zip file like you asked the other 2 files are also attached any problem please let me know. when u open the zip file the game might not play properly because the way we have structured the game is all our image files are in a sub directory called my textures i will add it with my workfolder i am sure u are smart enough to spot the problem and i hope i wont lose marks for this because to us its neater programming.
Are they so frighteningly stupid that they really thought insulting their lecturer's intelligence was a good idea?! In this particular case the game was so obviously broken (no pictures meant nothing at all was visible!) that a partially-sighted mongoose suffering from a bad rattlesnake bite could probably have spotted the mistake (maybe not understood the cause, but spotted the difference anyway!) ... I might be stupid at times but I ain't that stupid!
Needless to say in the caring'n'sharing educational system in which I work I gave them an opportunity to fix their code before the deadline ... in a not so distant time they'd probably have failed the whole module for being so stupid (even though the assignment is 'only' worth 30%.) Ahhh, nostalgia!


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