All the CS and IT stuff at most universities is easy to a modder who has done that stuff for years. I can do all the assignments for all the lower-division programming courses at my university in one or two days, total.
Yeah, previous year was my last in high school with IT. I learned how to work with HTML... doing serious PHP/MySQL (and anything other related to webdevelopment) job on my own. While others has to create easy website, i've done nice JavaScript game :P Two additional hours for break :P too bad at the end of the school day. Anyway, that was funny, but sometimes beginning to be boring. All my classmates cheats via LAN from my computer on programming exams, because after 5-10 minutes i was finishing it and make different versions available for public :P
My IT classes last time in high school thought us about microsoft office, ethics, ergonomics in the IT workplace.. It was fucking boring. I registered because I wanted to learn programming not all that stuff that is pretty much common sense to your computer techie.
Pretty much all the programming I know to date is self-thought thanks to that =_=
Its kinda like that in university as well. It really depends on how good your lecturers are. If their monotonous, its very hard to maintain your attention. Especially if the classes are in the early morning and you're still half asleep.
I just finished an "academic tech" class at my school. I tried to test out of it, but the test was incredibly harder than the actual class. I was so convinced I would waste my time that I actually kept a list of everything I learned. Just to prove it at the end. I learned ONE FRIGGING THING about word, after nearly gouging my eyes out from utter boredom and frustration. Do they REALLY think that at this point in our education, we don't know how to write an essay in word, or build a powerpoint slideshow? And to top it all off, my teacher puts in the wrong grade at the end of the year, ruining my GPA and moving me off the headmaster's list (which I desperately wanted and worked for all year) into a less amazing GPA category.
Hahah, I had a very similar experience with an "Introduction to Computers" class. I was like "Really? I've been using computers all my life, it's a little late to be introducing me to them now." Unfortunately there wasn't a way to test out of it, so I went through painfully boring tutorials and assignments using Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.
Then at the end of the semester, when I was sure I had passed with an A, I actually got a B because there were apparently "Online discussions" that were practically never mentioned throughout the entire semester that dropped my score low enough to get a lower letter grade.
That was the only B I had made in the span of like two years. Stupid stuff.
I feel glad, now, that there were no programming or IT classes (except for 2d graphic design and 3d animation and digital media classes) at my high school.
I was lucky enough to avoid this particular nightmare scenario. My high school gave me IT credit for spending 1-2 hours a day running around fixing faculty computers >_>
"Need moar RAM"
"Halp I haz virus"
"How to install printer drivers?"
Etc.
It was a pretty sweet gig, except for the Music building. Screw those hippies and their Macs...
Just changed my progam to IT .... and its all so basic... I want some serious IT work.....
I'm pretty sure you're in a class where they teach you how to use MS Word and Excel properly :)
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ModeratorsI'm kinda jealous, I heard IT was the ezmode CS. I want to switch.
IT at my school was just showing people how to use different programs like Word, Excel, Flash, Photoshop and things to do with HTML.
All the CS and IT stuff at most universities is easy to a modder who has done that stuff for years. I can do all the assignments for all the lower-division programming courses at my university in one or two days, total.
I'll give you some work. Finish wiring my house with Ethernet + VLAN :]
Yeah, previous year was my last in high school with IT. I learned how to work with HTML... doing serious PHP/MySQL (and anything other related to webdevelopment) job on my own. While others has to create easy website, i've done nice JavaScript game :P Two additional hours for break :P too bad at the end of the school day. Anyway, that was funny, but sometimes beginning to be boring. All my classmates cheats via LAN from my computer on programming exams, because after 5-10 minutes i was finishing it and make different versions available for public :P
My IT classes last time in high school thought us about microsoft office, ethics, ergonomics in the IT workplace.. It was fucking boring. I registered because I wanted to learn programming not all that stuff that is pretty much common sense to your computer techie.
Pretty much all the programming I know to date is self-thought thanks to that =_=
Most of college was relatively boring.
Its kinda like that in university as well. It really depends on how good your lecturers are. If their monotonous, its very hard to maintain your attention. Especially if the classes are in the early morning and you're still half asleep.
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I just finished an "academic tech" class at my school. I tried to test out of it, but the test was incredibly harder than the actual class. I was so convinced I would waste my time that I actually kept a list of everything I learned. Just to prove it at the end. I learned ONE FRIGGING THING about word, after nearly gouging my eyes out from utter boredom and frustration. Do they REALLY think that at this point in our education, we don't know how to write an essay in word, or build a powerpoint slideshow? And to top it all off, my teacher puts in the wrong grade at the end of the year, ruining my GPA and moving me off the headmaster's list (which I desperately wanted and worked for all year) into a less amazing GPA category.
I win.
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Hahah, I had a very similar experience with an "Introduction to Computers" class. I was like "Really? I've been using computers all my life, it's a little late to be introducing me to them now." Unfortunately there wasn't a way to test out of it, so I went through painfully boring tutorials and assignments using Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. Then at the end of the semester, when I was sure I had passed with an A, I actually got a B because there were apparently "Online discussions" that were practically never mentioned throughout the entire semester that dropped my score low enough to get a lower letter grade.
That was the only B I had made in the span of like two years. Stupid stuff.
I feel glad, now, that there were no programming or IT classes (except for 2d graphic design and 3d animation and digital media classes) at my high school.
I was lucky enough to avoid this particular nightmare scenario. My high school gave me IT credit for spending 1-2 hours a day running around fixing faculty computers >_>
"Need moar RAM"
"Halp I haz virus"
"How to install printer drivers?"
Etc.
It was a pretty sweet gig, except for the Music building. Screw those hippies and their Macs...