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I'm sure there are a few good courses. It's just wading through the crap that makes it unbearable. Hilariously awful example: the "teacher" of the class wanted

• hga 17y ago
  "I'm sure there are a few good courses." "Trust, but verify." WRT pointers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointers is wonderful additional reading, but a very poor first introduction to the concept. Maybe better than the pointers and arrays chapter in K&R, which didn't work for me, but only that. Yep, this guy is worse than useless (the accusations of cheating). The high school coach who taught my high school computer programming course (punched card FORTRAN "IV" on an IBM 1130) was a lot better ... then again he gave us a not in the book blackboard lecture on the two's compliment system, which I found to be tremendously useful going forward (just knowing that there was something behind the opaque veil of integers and floating point numbers was in and of itself useful). See if you can find a non-loser CS professor (or maybe one who needs some FORTRAN worked on ^_^ ... anything real and concrete ought to beat this) and go from there. Good luck!