Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> - I sit in a corner by myself, building and testing the program. Every 
>> now and then another team member will casually ask me how it's going. 
>> I tell them it's going OK. They smile and nodd, and wander off.
> 
> I had one of those. The funny part was when the partners came back three 
> weeks later for the next project and said "You wanna work together 
> again?"   Noooo...

Well, I mean, let's be honest about this. Only I have the skill required 
to write programs beyond Hello World that actually compile, much less 
execute in a way resembling the designer's intensions. So I did all the 
coding. The guys were perfectly nice about it; they just lacked the 
skills required to help me in any meaningful way.

What they *did* do is write all the GANT charts and other baloney that 
we actually got marked on. So, in a way, it's actually *me* that got the 
good deal! ;-)

But this has basically been my experience in every group project I've 
ever worked on. I've never met any other students who can actually 
program / do advanced math / comprehend complicated logic / etc. 
Basically I'm always the only guy in the group with any kind of 
technical skill.

(Although saying that... I *did* give some guy on my college course the 
code to my Mandelbrot generator. Actually I didn't *give* him the code, 
I just sat next to him and told him what to write. He seemed to be a 
half-competent programmer. That is, I didn't have to tell him character 
by character what to type, and he made lots of alterations after I went 
away which didn't break the code...)

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