The blog of Tobin

Tobins nerd blog on .NET, Software, Tech and Nice Shiny Gadgets.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Desperate students request quote for homework

As a freelancer I use agencies such as guru.com to find new projects. These tend to bring me a steady stream of project invitations of all kinds. Lol, and then today I got an especially interesting one that started with...

"Description
------------------------------
Pointers and dynamic memory space allocation
Strings and string functions
Multi-dimensional arrays
Arrays of pointers
More control structures
Sorting
Functions, parameter passing, side effects
Modular design


Now that Spring Break is almost here, you are getting very specific with your vacation choices. You are ready to create and print up possible itineraries of your vacation plans. You are going to be using the same type of data as for the previous lab with some additional information to be input and different types of output. You will be accepting data for 3 to 5 vacations.

First you will be taking in the same data as in the first lab but instead of storing it in six separate arrays you will store it in one multi-dimensional array that can hold all six types of values (note that this means that all the data must be stored as the same type of numbers.) You comments should indicate which dimension of the array represents which piece of data... "

It goes on for about another page, but you get the idea. They had basically cut and paste their entire university assignment description, and asked me to bid. Lol. I've seen students post assignments on newsgroups, but never on a commercial project bidding site.

The most facinating things about all this is that they're willing to pay between $41 and $60 per hour! Of course, I didn't bid. It's very sad though, whoever posted this should drop the course and find something they're interested in. Even better, their tutors will probably instantly detect something fishy about their assignment, and boot them off the course!

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home