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If the defense commits a personal foul on a touchdown, the penalty yardage will be added to the spot of the ensuing kickoff. So the scoring team will kickoff from the 50 instead of the 35.

The issue is that most kickoffs are now easy touchbacks. The average starting field position after a kickoff is the 22. So the penalty is very unlikely to negatively impact the offending team.

What made me think of this is a play in the Redskins / Cowboys game on Thursday. After Pierre Garcon scored a big touchdown. Mike Jenkins, the Cowboy safety caught up with him in the back of the endzone and gave him a shove out of frustration. The Redskins kicked off from the 50, which resulted in the same th

Hello, I am a relatively new CS professor. I have noticed that my students are, for the most part, very bad at testing their programs. They generally only test the very baseline of functionality required for a project. In software engineering, we briefly cover test-driven development, but it seems to be way too late at that stage. I have begun introducing the idea of testing in earlier courses and ask students to submit tests along with their code for 1 or 2 assignments.

What are other people's thoughts on this? Should we teach good software testing earlier?