I got an F on my first Java assignment in high school. I decided to use a List to store stuff as opposed to his method of creating 8 variables and copy-pasting method calls to interact with them. Apparently he doesn't like students using concepts he hadn't taught yet.

Or maybe it is too advanced for him
And he didn't understand 😄

It's feels off and all but sometimes you have to restrain yourself from using too much knowledge and adapt to the group to survive , let time do its job and at some point u'll rise above .

Jk , your teacher sucks .

Exactly, just imagine he is your client and do what he want :)

teach him back and get back what you deserve

Maybe someone has problems with following instructions...

@nocgod he never even said it was a rule until i broke it

@Phanta well you are to be tested and marked on the knowledge you were given. It is only logical you are to use it.

@nocgod but the concept he was trying to teach in this case was invoking methods, which i can do perfectly fine with a list as opposed to a pile of variables

@Phanta look... You can be a smart ass about it and rant all you like. Or, you can learn from this experience to follow guidelines and confirm to restrictions. You'll​ find those in your whole career. We all were smart asses and top of our class and pointed out or lecturers errors... In the end they set the guidelines and requirements - you are to follow.

All you had to do is ask "can I use x and not y?"

@nocgod on the contrary, I ended up just dropping the class and acing the AP test without it.

I figure that's also a philosophy applicable to real life too, since computer scientists are in such high demand at this point that I can just leave an unfavourable job environment if I don't like the restrictions.

@nocgod slippery slope arguments are rarely if ever valid.

I had something similar on my first year. We started with a basic Java course which was followed by a more advanced Java course and they kind of overlapped each other. I ended up using some of the more advanced stuff in the basic courses final assignment, whoops. Only got a slight hit on the grade though, not an F.

Going through these situations my whole life. But you know what, I say FUCK marks. I don't mind being last in my class if my teacher wants. As long as I am better than anyone else, I am happy.

I got points taken for using ++i instead of i++ in a for loop.😁

Hate those kind of teachers

@fox8091 @nocgod @Phanta although slightly entertaining, you all need to calm the fuck down. I see what @nocgod is saying and think its probably a little over the top but agree with the principle. I think everyone should take a big piece of humility pie, I don't know what it is about a lot of developers that I meet/talk to especially on dev rant but this isn't a pissing contest, we all do the same job and we should support each other, one day we may even work together.

I really don't understand this mentality about showing off who was the top of their class, who is better then someone else, it's all bullshit. And I personally think if you need to come on here and spout that kind of thing, there is a reason for it and usually it means you're full of shit.

Real devs don't need to pump themselves up and they don't want to see/hear others do it. Take a pill and goto SO if you want to prove how great you are.

@doz87 I didn't really post this as a self-promotion sort of thing; honestly I just want a stress ball so I figured a weekly post would get me a good deal of upvotes