Buy your teacher a drink! I went into university with the baggage of ten years of programming experience, mentored by my industry-experienced father. One of our

Buy your teacher a drink! I went into university with the baggage of ten years of programming experience, mentored by my industry-experienced father. One of our profs had the exact reverse point of view (i.e. "foo == true" was according to him "good practice"), and I wisely chose to disregard his opinions on coding practices from that point on.