• Simmo (unregistered) in reply to bstorer
    bstorer:
    Luke Gaddie:
    Sounds like my High School teacher. The school decided to start a "Computer Programming" class, teaching Java. This would have been alright, had:
    1. They not bought Java books that were a little more than 4 years old.
    2. If they had installed Java correctly on the computers as well.
    3. Had the teacher actually known the language and/or was interested in learning it.

    Unfortunately, I couldn't get admin access to permanently fix a few of the problems, so we managed with passing out .bat's to be run at the start of class. That still didn't fix all the syntax errors that, according to the book, were legal, but according to the compiler, were illegal.

    <3 Public School Budgets

    If I recall correctly, I took the CS AP test the last or second-to-last time it was given in C++. And our school's compiler of choice? Borland Turbo C++ 3.0. DOS-based, no namespaces, no STL. Good thing my internship had given me my own copy of VS6.0 and some newer C++ reference material.

    Lol!

    Don't knock it, that's what I learnt C++ (and assembler) in. Back in the day (1990?), that IDE was the dog's bollocks!

  • RD (unregistered) in reply to w_e

    Oh, that's simple. Only you can work on that class and nobody else :). And the class identifies you through speech recognition or your fingerprints (on the keyboard). But if you wear gloves and type then it will ask you if you are the same person who created that all private class and if the answer is yes it will open up and let you work on it he he he

  • Utilitypigeon (unregistered) in reply to Landy

    I actually have an odd affinity for the old Borland TC++.. it was my first c++ compiler, and came with a pretty good book on the language. Dropped it like a hot potato for Watcom though.. inline assembly and protected mode.. no more far pointers..

    captcha:poindexter

  • ewiethoff (unregistered)

    Egads! The photo accompanying the article looks like the RPI quad. Don't tell me Amro's school is RPI!

  • Neuro (unregistered) in reply to Franz Kafka

    nope hes not

    Apple and Pets and TRS80s and the Origional IBM came with an OS in ROM I can dimmly remmeber old (1970's/1960's) books refering to Disk drives/drums as a form of RAM.

    ps my first langauge was CESIL (a simple Machine code langauge for educational use)

  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to Mythokia
    Mythokia:
    I remember I had a multiple choice question for a history paper in Secondary School once that went like:

    Which of these produces a mushroom shaped cloud: A. Hydrogen Bomb B. Nuclear Bomb C. Atomic Bomb D. some other crap that I can't remember.

    Of course, B was the only correct answer.

    I can see how that might be relevant in a physics course, but WTF has that got to do with history?

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to TheRubyWarlock

    ...those who can't teach do educational research

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