Progress reports of my students fixing bugs

[Hans de Goede]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 02:58:38PM -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> Provide bug and source code, please.  I'm curious.
> 
> Mostly, <http://mattdm.org/icebreaker/>
> 
> Latest code at:
> 
> <ftp://linst.bu.edu/velouria/SRPMS/icebreaker-1.9.8-pre1bu45.4.src.rpm>
> 
> although there's some stuff languishing in CVS that I haven't touched for a
> while.
> 
> The bug is: sometimes, when you complete a line, area which includes a
> penguin is calculated as not including one. It's probably a stupid
> off-by-one error or something, but I beat my head against it for a while and
> stopped.
> 
> Caveat: this is code from several years ago and my pride in it is
> mixed. It was the first decent-sized C program I wrote on Linux, and I was a
> little intimidated, so I did some clearly odd things, like avoiding
> allocating dynamic memory. Plus, the code to make the whole entry screen is
> very kludgy and causes other kludges. :) And please don't mention how the
> spec file needs cleaning up. :)
> 

Thanks,

I've added this to the list for the students under the category difficult, for those who like challenge.

Regards,

Hans