Agree, sad reality of most CS courses taught at school, the hw problems do not resemble real world professional problems. Google doesn't use exceptions at all,

Agree, sad reality of most CS courses taught at school, the hw problems do not resemble real world professional problems. Google doesn't use exceptions at all, at least in C++ code (http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Exceptions http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...), so according to you, their problems don't "resemble real world professional problems"? (Whatever "real world" and "professional" means - whenever I see these terms, it's red warning lights all over for me.)