Hell. I turned in the whole semesters assignments in the 2nd week of class. I also stayed to help tutor other kids. The friggen teacher every week kept telling me I was failing saying I musta brought it in from home, or had my brother do it for me. He was rejecting my turn in, and I had to redo it. I just kept turning in the same things.
I said "If you don't believe I know what I'm doing, give me a problem right now and I will prove it."
He gave me: "enter a number, convert to a roman numeral. Make it work up to 54."
His code was (going to simplify these answers):
Code:
if (input == '1') cout << 'I';
if (input == '2') cout << 'II';
if (input == '3') cout << 'III';
All the way up to 54.
I had:
Code:
while(input > 0)
{
if(input >= 1000)
{
cout << 'M';
input -= 1000;
}
if(input >= 100)
{
cout << 'C';
input -= 100;
}
if(input >= 10)
{
cout << 'V';
input -= 10;
}
if(input >= 5)
{
cout << 'X';
input -= 5;
}
if(input >= 1)
{
cout << 'I';
input -= 1;
}
}
(I had all the right expressions in there for 9's, 4's etc, and the correct symbols, etc.)
He had this strange look on his face, like he had no idea what I just did. He failed me and told me not to come back to class.
I went and bitched to the councilor. She told me some people are not cut out for computer programming and suggested I find another interest, and told me to take a test on a computer which tries to analyze my personality and give suggestions on what my career should be and where my interests should lie. So I did, and she told me I should focus on being a garbage man and the skills for it. So I dropped out of high school, got a job (this was during the dot com craze and everybody was hiring), and by the time I would have finished high school, I was making more than both of them (probably combined)... Garbage man indeed!
When I was legally able to (it's age 19 in my state - They don't allow anybody to take it earlier to prevent people from dropping out and taking their GED early to bypass school) I went back and received my GED and went to college. Paid for by my current employer, the one who hired me after I left school.
(I'm now 37 and have 20 years of professional experience)
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