Helping on student's project

hi all,

 

just wanna ask whether u all willing to take up the project in school. i've a friend's son asking me to help his friends on their school's C++ project and will be awarded some money. however, i feel guilty to help them cos i think this way will only spoil them so i rejected to help him though can earn extra here. what do u guys think about this kind of situation in school like ITE, poly or even uni level?

 

cheers,

eddykuan 

it depends on what kind of "help" it is. if it's just for consultation it's fine, i'd even do it for free. but if it's making their project for them, that's not helping them.

Take a look at the second point on our rules and guidelines.

http://community.sgdotnet.org/forums/thread/4924.aspx

I ok if students are asking for help to understand how to do certain things, principles behind certain thought patterns. But I personally take a very strong stand against outsourcing of their projects. If I get to know such activity, and the origin of the students, I'll walk up to their principals to inform them (Which I've done so before)

I think we are not living in the olden ages now....now everything got internet....can simple type the problem u have in google and search for solutions 
yourself.  Unless the student plain lazy don't want to lift his own finger to help himself, even God cannot help him.

enough said. Yes money can buy a expert to help him solve his problem now....but what will happen when he goes out to working environment,
boss ask him to code, he dunno? U cannot possibly code for him at work, can you?

eddykuan:

i've a friend's son asking me to help his friends on their school's C++ project and will be awarded some money.

Supposing your friend does not know of this, and you have not reported his son to him, then you would have failed him as a friend. I am of the opinion that no decent parent would want his/her child to take what is most likely pocket money or savings from the parents to fuel the child's means of "escape" in life. Parents need to teach their kids to work and study hard to gain the necessary skill sets to be useful to society, cliche as it may sound.