Originally Posted by
Cyclone
funny note:
I took a C++ programing course. The most fun day was when the instructor asked us to write instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, simple huh? He later broke out a bag of bread , jelly and peanut butter and had the students follow other students instructions and try to make the sandwich. Needless to say is hard to make a sandwich with a jelly jar, a peanut butter jar, two lids, a knife, a pice of bread, and a bag of bread all in your hands since who wrote the instructions never said to place these items down.
In a similar light vein, I remember way back an Electronic instructor's class came to mid-term break, instead of setting a test, asked all students to solve a problem his wife had in driving her car into their garage, the car was barely shorter than the length of the garage and she would end up bumping the end wall, the instructor was afraid that in the end the wall would suffer and repairs would be needed, so he asked all students that over the break they design a device that would indicate to his wife when her car was at the right position.
Most students came up with varying degrees of electronic complexity, and all would have probally done the trick, but the one that won was the simplest solution.
The winner suggested hanging a tennis ball on a string from the rafter that just contacted the windshield just in front of the driver side.
Al
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