Well, I’ve known that D.C. and proximity drivers are assholes for a while, so I drive defensively. Good thing too, as otherwise my family’s insurance would go through the roof! (Let’s see, teenage male, hasn’t had his license very long, and has already had an accident? Not fun, and fortunately, not yet.)
Could you explain this? I hate not being in on a joke.
Monstre needs to know more about the program than just the fact that it’s not compiling. There are an infinite number of reasons why might not compile. The student didn’t send his code, or tell what error message(s) he got from the compiler, or . . .
Ah, okay, thanks.
I have no idea what it means to compile a program, but at least now I sort of get the problem with the email.
Oh, sorry, I should have 'splained. CS people might have a better explanation, but as I understand it, a compiler is a computer program that takes your code, which is a list of commands that a human being can read if they know the programming language, and turns it into a file that the computer can execute. The executable file is usually not something a human being can read and understand, unless they have very deep kung fu. If you have an error in your code (you misspelled one of the commands, or didn’t use the correct syntax, or, like I said, an infinite number of things), then the compiler won’t be able to process the code and will barf a bunch of error messages onto the screen.
Once you’ve got the program to compile without barfing, then you can run the executable file, and see if the computer does what you wanted it to.
Thanks, Podkayne. You really didn’t need to go to all that trouble. 
Thanks for the laugh.
These students must graduate(?) and become the bain of travel professionals everywhere!
I can hear them leaving messages on my voicemail now…
“I need to travel to XYZ Industries on the 15th and stay at the hotel across the street from where you put me last time.”
My immediate questions…
-In WHAT CITY is XYZ Industries?
-15th of WHAT month?
-When you wanna come back?
-How about at least a HINT about those hotels, hmm?
and, most importantly…
-and your name is?..
Yes, I was.
So who was whooshed again?
Me for about 1.5 seconds, and anyone else who took your first post at face value.
Umm… that’s me.
However, if I want people to be able to know my name, I’ll print it with the illegeible scrawl that is my official, legal signature.
Honest.
Just so you know, I meant to add a 
to that so as to not come across as a dick.
Sigh…I should stop trying to make jokes in a print medium. They don’t seem to come across very well.