From Nissans, cookies and Martians to chefs and boiled eggs
YES YES YES! It was another god-aweful lesson in programming! This time we were actually aloud to open Pascal! It was a miricle, not that we actually wrote anything, but we are getting there slowly! This time he was talking about chefs and how someone writes a recipe, sends it to someone else, they send it to the chef, and the chef cooks the food and then the waiter serves the food to the customer. And all this was to explain how a program (Pascal) is used to write a programme! Why couldnt he just stick with, we write english into Pascal, Pascal translates it to binary, the computer turns that into a programme, then it runs. So much easier!
Then he went off on a tangent and started trying to explain how a processor works and how a computer works. All because someone asked how does the computer change the code into a programme. He said he would answer it in only 30 seconds.... 10 minutes later and hes babbling on about how it compares to boiling an egg andhow if you ask someone to boil an egg and they know how to do it but if you ask a computer to do it and you need to tell it step by step! ie put out hand, pick up kettle, move to sink, turn tap on, fill kettle, turn tap off, put kettle down, turn kettle on....You get the picture!
Im sorry, but hes really driving me crazy! With this only being a one year course, and only having two lessons with him a week, and hes going this slow? Someone really needs to have words with him! OK, I understand that some people, like me, know absolutly fuck all about programming, but the way hes going about it is messed up! By the time he starts actually teaching me anything new, IM going to know it all ready from the help sites online.
Im going to get in trouble one day, today I was falling asleep! And I promise, if the lessons keep going this way, he is gonna drive me to sleep and if he catches me asleep... well...
Another lesson with him tomorrow, so I hope it goes better than this one! Also got my lovely 3 hour break! God knows what im gonna do! Go get a book on pascal and sit down and read it! haha! And he thinks hes the best programmer around? yet hes teaching us a language which hasnt been used since 1993? FOR FUCK SAKES!
SORRY!
Then he went off on a tangent and started trying to explain how a processor works and how a computer works. All because someone asked how does the computer change the code into a programme. He said he would answer it in only 30 seconds.... 10 minutes later and hes babbling on about how it compares to boiling an egg andhow if you ask someone to boil an egg and they know how to do it but if you ask a computer to do it and you need to tell it step by step! ie put out hand, pick up kettle, move to sink, turn tap on, fill kettle, turn tap off, put kettle down, turn kettle on....You get the picture!
Im sorry, but hes really driving me crazy! With this only being a one year course, and only having two lessons with him a week, and hes going this slow? Someone really needs to have words with him! OK, I understand that some people, like me, know absolutly fuck all about programming, but the way hes going about it is messed up! By the time he starts actually teaching me anything new, IM going to know it all ready from the help sites online.
Im going to get in trouble one day, today I was falling asleep! And I promise, if the lessons keep going this way, he is gonna drive me to sleep and if he catches me asleep... well...
Another lesson with him tomorrow, so I hope it goes better than this one! Also got my lovely 3 hour break! God knows what im gonna do! Go get a book on pascal and sit down and read it! haha! And he thinks hes the best programmer around? yet hes teaching us a language which hasnt been used since 1993? FOR FUCK SAKES!
SORRY!
posted by Chunky at 6:47 PM
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