anyone else find this sad?

[toph99]

i am in 2 different computer courses for grade 10 at my school, comp. engineering tech(hardware) and comp. information tech(programming) and in both of them, there is basic hardware introduction. this includes the use of 72pin SIMMS in 'modern pc's' and speeds reaching 'up to 200mhz' along with a description of onboard cache on a 486 mobo. somethin tells me that this teacher either needs to find a new information source, or make some serious changes in the curriculum...

just thought i'd share

 

[Imported]

Same with my teacher. He's recommending people not to pay for 500mhz+ and settle for 300mhz because they're cheaper and says that they'll last you a long time. Also, he mostly talks about his RV and boat.. and we rarely get to use the computers..

 

[toph99]

mine doens't know a whole lot about hardware, he's still using a k6-2 with a 2mb vid card, so i am teaching him about new hardware etc. and he is showin me about networking and programming. he's a nice guy, just doesn't know a whole lot about hardware. i usually end up teaching the class more or less

 

[chess9]

A friend of mine who worked as an engineer at Martin-Marietta and lives very comfortably on a pension uses a 486. He says we don't need an OS any more powerful than Win 3.11, 32 megs of ram, and a 1 meg video card. He thinks a 486 is an absolute rocket for a home machine. Go figure.

The older you get, the harder you must work to keep growing. Stasis is so easy. That's an important lesson for young people to learn and REMEMBER!

 

[toph99]

the more i study, the more i learn
the more i learn, the more i forget
the more i forget, the less i know
so why study?

on a bookmark i got when i went for a 1 day visit to Oxford University


and my teacher is maybe early 30's late 20's, so he isn't too old

 

[StickHead]

Yeah computer classes are pretty sad at my school. I took there "advanced" class, we talked about hardware. My teacher had no clue, he had no idea how to pernounce 'scsi'.

 

[toph99]

we just got 'new' computers, Celeron 500mhz, 64mb ram, 17" screens and 18gb hard drives(ata33) with some cheapo ati vid card. better than the 8 year old macs we usually use, lol. or the 386 and 486's used for auto cad. those are just sooo slooooow

 

[MI6]

Our campus has labs that contain 233mhz, 600mhz, and 700mhz. People go to the 200's because they are the laydown cases, they just don't trust the standing ones. WTF? Then they call us and complain that the computer is so slooooow.
I am in programing and fot the first three weeks we talked about the computer itself. Not in depth. Things like, this is Main Memory, or RAM. It hold info so you can get it. Then the same speach for a hard drive. But secondary memory of cource. Anyone ever heard of programing? Lets get to some C++. We just got though cin (two days worth). The only class i think of skipping. I would but i get so much homework done in that hour.

 

[toph99]

those 2 periods are nap time. that is of course if i'm not on here, or answering Mac's(my teacher for both courses) questions(in other words, him asking me to correct what he just said, hehe)