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"Good" being the key word. Most professors I had in my day were probably masters of the material, but their droned explanations bored me to death and were overl
by KoenDG 8y ago
"Good" being the key word. Most professors I had in my day were probably masters of the material, but their droned explanations bored me to death and were overly theoretical.
Asking for help was a sure way to be mocked by your fellow students, who for some reason lived by the idea that it's okay to mock people for not knowing something they do know.
And then lab professors saying it's not their job to explain things, just google it. I was literally told several times by the lab professors that "we're just teaching you how to effectively google things".
I wonder if that contributed to my hating bad documentation and guides.
- dkarl 8y agoTastes vary. Not about being mocked, that sucks, but about what's important and interesting. When I was in college I borrowed algorithms textbooks from a CS student to study for fun but never took a single CS class because I didn't want to do the "boring" stuff she was doing for class like writing Telnet clients and kernel modules and implementing parts of the network stack. I loved the books that concentrated on theory and yadda-yaddaed how it might be applied in the real world. Ten years later my tastes were reversed; I was sick of math but really curious about nuts and bolts. So don't assume people are put off by focusing on theory and dismissing everything else as "Googleable"! For some folks it's exactly what they're looking for.