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@g-m-f he is a good teacher if you prefer academics way of learning programming. He would always focus on the definition he made rather than our way of expressing it and look he couldn't even say that c is used to write os. And you must ask questions like if i give this name to any array and it is of this type. what does this name mean kind of questions not what is an array_name and expect an answer in his prescribed way.
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@w0ble you should have been there when he taught pointers.
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I learn about as much from theory teachers as I do from daydreaming
But seriously, this is the worst match up I've seen, programmers are logical thinkers, they typically learn from doing, not understanding it's deep purpose. My physics professor teaches like this, and as a result, I learn next to nothing from him. In fact, I'm working on assignments most of the time during his lecture (I only attend because of clicker questions). He explains how it works in theory, but never shows any examples -
@agentwolf44 My point exactly, my good sir!! :-D
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@binhex yeah he couldn't explain c is used to make operating systems and other system performance critical tasks which needs memory management and efficiency.
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@sjzurek sorry what's that?
There was a computer programming teacher in my 1st semester who taught C. He used to have this conventional way of teaching C like other Engineering subjects which was going to more theories before writing actual codes.
These are the conversations with him.
(First day, a guy asks him some questions.)
Guy: Sir, why do we need to learn C? There are other languages used extensively for other tasks like python,etc. Why bother with this boring C?
Teacher: C is used to learn other languages. After learning C, you can easily learn other languages.
Guy: Sir, where is C's application? Where is it used?
Teacher: It is used in academics to lay foundation for students to learn other languages which are used to build softwares.
(Fucking Hilarious)
(A month after he was asking some questions to students.)
Teacher: What is an array? What is an array-name?
Student 1: Array, is this collection of data that can be stored in a single type.
Teacher: Then what is an array-name?
Student 1: I don't know.
Teacher: (angrily) Array-name is a definition itself.
(We were supposed to answer that. It was a standard definition.)
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