03-13-2004, 02:07 AM
I had a chance to play with assembly during my electronics12 course mostly because the teacher trusted us -- enough of us at least -- to let the class do what ever the heck we wanted as long as it did not violate some policy or law and fit roughly in the curriculum he had planned for us. Also, being the teacher's first year, he was eager to experiment.
My highschool had IT courses that taught programming, but they were in a sorry state. Although I did not take any of those courses, I did end up being a "tutor" in the class, and they were the most pathetic gathering of technology students I've ever seen. People either breezed by the class, or failed miserably to even learn the difference between a and b or 2 and 3.
"It doesn't work..."
"Okay, your function is declared to take an array, but you're passing an integers to it."
"... okay..."
"And, the declaration has three parameters; you're calling it with only two."
"... I don't get it."
Oh, the countless times I've had to supress my urge to smack them over the head...
My highschool had IT courses that taught programming, but they were in a sorry state. Although I did not take any of those courses, I did end up being a "tutor" in the class, and they were the most pathetic gathering of technology students I've ever seen. People either breezed by the class, or failed miserably to even learn the difference between a and b or 2 and 3.
"It doesn't work..."
"Okay, your function is declared to take an array, but you're passing an integers to it."
"... okay..."
"And, the declaration has three parameters; you're calling it with only two."
"... I don't get it."
Oh, the countless times I've had to supress my urge to smack them over the head...