• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

an observation about CS professors

B

bigalt

Golden Member

First of all, as is apparently the case with all old school computer scientists, they can't type. They also love to code in front of the class, so you end up watching this painful process of them trying to type, "ci...-l...e...x..a.mp...l...e.c" (the exception to this is that they have this twitch ability to type ls sporadically, for no reason although they do typo that quite often). When they are typing someting besides ls, they look straight down at the keyboard.

Now, nobody in the class wants to be the one to shout out to make some little correction to his typing, so the best part is when he's typing:
pirntf("Age: %d Weight: %g Sex: %a\n",student.age,student.weight,student.sex);

then when he finally looks up, he has to use the left arrow to scroll all the way back to correct it (if not the delete key).

great fun!

I now know profs at at least three schools like this, does anyone else know what i'm talking about?
 
yeah... i have seen some real old professors do that... but i have also seen some professors coding small programs (like java thread and sockets example) in front of a class of 150 students, and not only their program compiles at first attempt, they type like bullet.
 
I've never seen that. My CS prof types moderately fast and his programs compile first try virtually all the time.
 
My CS101 teacher made us:

-Email her source
-Email her a binary
-Bring a floppy with source + binary to class
-Print out the source

For every assigment. I got points taken off because I didn't comment "Hello world". That woman was totally worthless.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
My CS101 teacher made us:

-Email her source
-Email her a binary
-Bring a floppy with source + binary to class
-Print out the source

For every assigment. I got points taken off because I didn't comment "Hello world". That woman was totally worthless.
Click to expand...

Do people ever inform such teachers that they are simply wrong? I await my chance to correct teachers' stupid misinformation when I get to college. 😉

edit: heh, actually, it would be fun to mock those teachers by grossly over-commenting

/*
* Here we reference the cout stream, part of the C++ iostream
* header. Also put to use is overloading of the left bitshift operator,
* which in this context actually concatenates the text. The endl object
* is a way to abstract line-terminators in a way that is notably helpful
* for cross-platform development, due to the different sequences
* of characters used for line endings on different platforms. The
* semicolon at the end of the line tells the compiler that the statement
* is finished.
*/

cout << "hello world" << endl;
 
Originally posted by: MAME
Nope, my teachers are PhD's and work outside of school doing CS jobs.
Click to expand...

I'm not sure if you're implying that his professors and education are probably of a poor quality... but according to his profile he goes to a prestigous top 20 ranked university. His professors undoubtedly have PhDs, perform research, etc. Personally I've never heard of a professor that didn't have a PhD.
 
The best ever was when we were Assembly coding. Our professor wouldn't give us the Windows editor, not because everyone might not have PC's, but because all of us with PC's might not have have Windows installed; instead, he gave us the DOS emulator.
 
yeah, pretty much all of my CS Profs type fast and compile programs first try... they are also geniuses on text editors (emacs) they know every hot key and every in and out of the editor.

 
I had a cs prof that could type faster than I could think (seriously) and talk about something else at the same time. It was really impressive, yet intimidating.
 
I'm not saying his teachers don't have degrees or aren't smart or anything, I'm just saying that my teachers work in the field still and it would make sense that they can type quickly. I don't see how someone who teaches CS (especially with a PhD AND outside experience) would have problems typing.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top