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I remember in high school my C teacher made us write it that way, even after most of the kids in the class tried to convince him against it. In his defense, he
by m0nastic 16y ago
I remember in high school my C teacher made us write it that way, even after most of the kids in the class tried to convince him against it. In his defense, he didn't know C (he was taking night classes at a local college and then teaching us what he had been taught the night before).
- i386 16y agoYour learnt C in highschool? Thats pretty great. In highschool we had a very talented and enthusiastic teacher who rewrite the vb6 examples in quite a bit of the terms curriculum in Python and introduced us to that first.
- m0nastic 16y agoI actually predominantly learned COBOL and RPG in High School (which makes me feel old, even though this was in 97). I thought COBOL was useless at the time, but amusingly have had to do two separate source code audits of COBOL code in the past year (where I was the only person in my company who could do it). My senior year, they decided to pilot a C programming class. None of the teachers knew C, but one Math teacher volunteered to take night classes and teach us what he was learning. I would say in about two months, every student in the class was significantly more knowledgeable than the teacher; but he was very cool about it. The only bad part was he spent about four months on graphics programming; which wouldn't have been bad, except we learned Borland C Graphics (getpixel, putpixel, etc.) which were pretty much useless. The year culminated in us sending a team to a C Programming Contest being held at a nearby university. I always thought it was amusing that the grand prize (which we didn't win) was a copy of Visual Cafe (the Java IDE).