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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises


At 21:18 11/10/2002, Joachim Ziegler wrote:

>An exercise consists of a problem and eventually its solution(s).
>
>In a course, when it comes to an exercise, I might say "Write a program that 
>outputs HELLO WORLD". There is no question/answer involved here.

If I were a student, I'd interpret that as:

<question>Generate a program..... </question>

You may not call it a question, I assure you 99% of students would
take it as exactly that. I'm sure the linguists have a name 
for such as this.




>But a problem may well consist of finding the answer to a given question.

(No matter how its phrases :-)


Regards DaveP.




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