Re: User roles and UI

["Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>]

For problems that are meant for that - sure - have one with solution
control type "none".
For normal problems - where there is a solution, they have to be part
of some other object to be solved, in order to be controlled properly
(whether it is a course, a "through problem", contest, or something
else), as these objects will have "controllers" assigned to them
(teachers, contest runners, etc.).

Now, nothing prevents student from looking at a problem, and trying
to solve it on paper. It's just will not be reflected in our application in
any way.

Anatoly Volynets wrote:
> The User decides whether he wants to mess up with the problem.  He  can 
> contact the Author. What else?
> I just got an idea that some problem lovers (to create and to solve)
> would never bother to supply or to wonder about answer or solution. They
> would prefer to think and talk about it as much as they need until they
> solve it or get it in communication, just like artists. So, as a matter
> of opinion, I suggest one more problem control type--none.
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> Problems without solutions happens in the history of science regularly,
> they move it ahead. The great Fermat theorem (any equation X^n + Y^n=C,
> where n - integer>2, cannot be solved in integers) was written by him on
> margins of a book with the note that he found an admirable proof, but
> the margin is too narrow to write it down. The theorem is not proved by
> now, and thousands of mathematicians  have passionately been working on
> it for more than 300 years.
>
> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
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>> And what happens next?
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>> Anatoly Volynets wrote:
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>>> Let it be that such kind of a problem, while in the Repository, is not
>>> controlled and notifies the Student about it.
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>>> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
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>>>> At this point we were talking about a student studying UMO without
>>>> regard to which course it is part of.
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Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
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