Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

In article <4fjofk$ob2_at_engr.orst.edu> wilsonch_at_newt.CS.ORST.EDU (The Water Walker) writes:

   I agree with this. I personally have learned more from reading books and    coding on my own than from any class I've ever taken. I've seen people    come out of thier first CS class, an intro to C++, writing program    involving polymorphism and not understanding what they were actually    doing. Alot of them barely even understood the basic syntax and what the    reserved words even are.

I was the top of my C++ class, but i can't function in the language at all because the class was so poor and the language so disgusted me I lost any motivation to learn it on my own. I didn't even get much of about OOP out of it; I've had to scratch what little OO understanding I have from playing with Lisp and ToolBook.

Fortunately I already knew all the other languages I had to take, except for one which was taught by someone who could teach, whom they've since fired.

Much of the theory side was a waste as well, except Automata and Compilers, because they came from another competant whom they inexplicably have not yet fired.

Lesson: don't take CS at Acadia University.

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Hume Smith   <hclsmith_at_isisnet.com>