My Computer Science Teacher

[MrCodeDude]

Second day of the class, it's funny how she's teaching C++ yet refers to "Open Source" as a program. Because not everyone has Visual C++, the other teacher told her to tell us to use a different program that is open-source. But she refers to the program as Open-Source, not as the program's name. Heh.

Today she is ranting about the partitioning of her 120GB disc on her new computer. She doesn't understand why the OS is on its own partition and now she has some other guy trying to explain it to her, but the guy isn't that bright either.

This is going to be a fun class. I've just been posting on ATOT the whole time.

 

[notfred]

High school sucked for me, too.

 

[MAME]

why is the OS on its own partition?

 

[gururu]

PIC PIC darnit!

 

[MrCodeDude]

This is community college, but meh. Only place that offers summer school.

Originally posted by: MAME
why is the OS on its own partition?

I don't know the reason why Dell/Gateway/etc. do it, but I do it because I re-format my OS partition every other month or so.

And on a 80GB drive when you only have 5GB dedicated to the OS, that's 75GB less to backup.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: gururu
PIC PIC darnit!

Yeah, because everyone has their digital camera on hand at school.

 

[MAME]

plus all the drivers and programs eh?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

 

[imported_vr6]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh. Only place that offers summer school.

Originally posted by: MAME
why is the OS on its own partition?

I don't know the reason why Dell/Gateway/etc. do it, but I do it because I re-format my OS partition every other month or so.

And on a 80GB drive when you only have 5GB dedicated to the OS, that's 75GB less to backup.

Same have a 40giger for my OS and 80 giger for my storage, simplfies things abit when you OS get all messed up and you need to reformat.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

Yeah, seriously. Except this class is 4 hours a day because it's a "short semester."

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

Yeah, seriously. Except this class is 4 hours a day because it's a "short semester."

G'luck man. Last semester I took a 16 week 5 1/2 hour course that met once a week. It was PURE HELL.

EDIT: To make it worse, it was on a Monday.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

Yeah, seriously. Except this class is 4 hours a day because it's a "short semester."

That translates to 4 hours of "postcount++". See, I make Computer Science joke. I funny! LAUGH DAMN YOU!!!

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

That's a moronic statement. Given the "quality" of today's college courses, I've found that community college teachers tend to actually teach better. This is after seeing 3 different CC. I've taken classes at 2 different universities and my wife has as well. The teachers on average tend to not really care at all about their students.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

Yeah, seriously. Except this class is 4 hours a day because it's a "short semester."

That translates to 4 hours of "postcount++". See, I make Computer Science joke. I funny! LAUGH DAMN YOU!!!

Forgot the semi-colon. It's postcount++;

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
This is community college, but meh.

Community college = high school 2.0. I don't think I'd ever go back to a community college again. At least your class will probably be an easy A.

That's a moronic statement. Given the "quality" of today's college courses, I've found that community college teachers tend to actually teach better. This is after seeing 3 different CC. I've taken classes at 2 different universities and my wife has as well. The teachers on average tend to not really care at all about their students.

Not in California where teachers are severly underpaid. No initiatives.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: MAME
why is the OS on its own partition?

So when you need to reformat, deleting the OS won't hurt any of your data/programs/etc. Reformatting is good for 3 things...1) if you suck at computers and get utterly raped by spyware/viruses...or 2) OS needs to be cleaned up every so often...makes everything run smoother/faster...or 3) something just totally fvcks up and you have no other choice.

-Eric

 

[MAME]

you have to reinstall the programs.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: MAME
you have to reinstall the programs.

Not if you copy the Application Data folder over again.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: MAME
you have to reinstall the programs.

Not if you copy the Application Data folder over again.

registry?

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: MAME
you have to reinstall the programs.

Not if you copy the Application Data folder over again.

registry?

Keeps most of your program's settings.

Hey guys, look what I wrote today:

//T3AppE03.cpp - calculates and displays a commission amount

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
//hi2u
cout << "omgs hi2u. this class is hard\n\n ";

//declare variables
float sales = 0.0;
float rate = 0.0;
float commission = 0.0;

//enter input items
cout << "Enter your Sales: ";
cin >> sales;
cout << "Enter your Commission Rate: ";
cin >> rate;

//calculate commission
commission = sales * rate;

//display commission
cout << "Your Commission: " << commission << endl;

return 0;
}

//end of main function

 

[Reliant]

My computer science teacher in college was making a program as an example, and the villian was a guy named Dr. NoNookie......I wonder how my teacher was feeling about life at that point.

 

[JetsFanatic]

Originally posted by: gururu
PIC PIC darnit!

:camera:

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: Reliant
My computer science teacher in college was making a program as an example, and the villian was a guy named Dr. NoNookie......I wonder how my teacher was feeling about life at that point.

hahahaahahaha.

 

[randomlinh]

blah, you shouldn't need to have to reformat unless you've royally screwed something over. With that said, I like to have my OS/APPs on one drive/partition. Preferable a 20GB drive to itself.. but they don't make them drives anymore. I hate partitioning.

 

[MAME]

programs work with just backing up application data? I thought the registry data was required!