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- From: jeremy@newshost.li.net (Jeremy Markman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: COLLEGE PROFESSORS! #3
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 19:35:57 GMT
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- DAVID MOHORN (david.mohorn@sourcebbs.com) wrote:
- : My last complaint tonight is how the instructor comments his code--I
- : can't take it any more!!!
- : Any comments or horror stories would be welcomed.
-
- I was a Computer Science major in college. For the lower level courses,
- Pascal was the instructional language used, and each procedure and
- function required tons of comments. Yes, it was a pain in the ass. Many
- people even wondered why we were even learning Pascal since no one in the
- real world uses Pascal, right? Well, let's see, that's true, except for
- a program that I wrote to win a bet two months after graduation, I
- haven't used Pascal once since I graduated...
-
- In fact, none of the languages I learned in college, excepting some basic
- C fundamentals, did I actually use in the outside world. Am I upset?
- No. I have yet to find a colleague who was as prepared for the outside
- world as much as I was after college...Why? Because college taught me
- how to approach and solve a problem. Once you know what an algorithm is,
- you can apply it to any language. Maybe that's why we used Pascal and
- commented so much. Hm...also, most of the class was NOT made up of
- future CSC majors. Learning to program and problem solve is not easy for
- everyone and using a very structured approach is the best way to teach it
- to a wide variety of skill levels at once...
-
- If you know the best way to shave 10 nanoseconds of run-time from a
- program, use it. But, for god's sake, let the professor teach.
-
- You may think he's teaching bad practices, but in fact, he is instructing
- good theory...
-