On Thu 04 Nov 2004 at 11:39:40, Steve Meyers said: > I've never heard CS 142 described as requiring "a lot of work". I never > even went to the lectures, and I generally whipped out the labs in under > 15 minutes each. My pre-university programming experience consisted of > some moderately advanced QuickBasic.
I would have had a really easy time in 142, too. That's why I skipped it.
I think that most people on this list would agree that 142 is a piece of
cake. But the UUG is not a representative sample of BYU students. We're
the true geeks. We run an operating system that most of our peers haven't
even heard of. Many of us could already program when we started college.
I'm trying to represent the larger group that sees something like:
for (n=0; n<10; n++) {
cout << n << endl;
}
and can't even begin to tell you what it does. For them, CS 142 is a lot of
work.
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"Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but
unfortunately they always start running in the same direction."
-- Art Buchwald
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