topic for 3 page computer science report?

[Kadarin]

What I'm wondering is... why the hell do they have to do a 3 page report in computer science? That's like an english or history exercise. In my opinion, students taking "computer science" should be studying computer science, not doing reports.

 

[Imdmn04]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
What I'm wondering is... why the hell do they have to do a 3 page report in computer science? That's like an english or history exercise. In my opinion, students taking "computer science" should be studying computer science, not doing reports.

I'm wondering that too? I've never seen a CS class where u get to pick a topic and write whatever you want, that sounds more like an essay writing class than a CS class.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Quasmo
Why Ghz doesn't matter. There are a million graphs showing this fact, and even though it may seem like a really easy suject n00bs like your teacher will think its really interesting.

And what's even better, you might inform a few morons in your class that an Athlon 64 at a "lousy 1.8GHz" does indeed absolutely bitchify a Celeron 2.6

- M4H

already been done...i converted my entire class save one person to amdfanboys

You know, moderation is good....make sure you include that when speaking about mhz/ghz.

I had one fanboy tell me his workstation could totally work on par with one of my servers here at work for like 1/8th the cost and that I was a moron for justifying that cost. granted, from what I could gather, it was a pretty nice workstation, but there's no way his athlon is gonna whomp
8x3.0ghz Xeons HT -> 16 virtual procs with 8G of RAM.

It's just as fast in MS Word though... 22 wpm is 22 wpm

haha, actually, it'd be a damn sight slower, Word isn't installed.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
What I'm wondering is... why the hell do they have to do a 3 page report in computer science? That's like an english or history exercise. In my opinion, students taking "computer science" should be studying computer science, not doing reports.

I'm wondering that too? I've never seen a CS class where u get to pick a topic and write whatever you want, that sounds more like an essay writing class than a CS class.

well, it's feasible that an IT person would have to, at some point in their career, need to write a report on something technical.

plus I think a lot of schools are starting to really hammer the focus in on things like writing skills, so that they don't look illiterate once they graduate and are in the field.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: Imdmn04

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
What I'm wondering is... why the hell do they have to do a 3 page report in computer science? That's like an english or history exercise. In my opinion, students taking "computer science" should be studying computer science, not doing reports.

I'm wondering that too? I've never seen a CS class where u get to pick a topic and write whatever you want, that sounds more like an essay writing class than a CS class.

well, it's feasible that an IT person would have to, at some point in their career, need to write a report on something technical.

plus I think a lot of schools are starting to really hammer the focus in on things like writing skills, so that they don't look illiterate once they graduate and are in the field.

exactly, or if you go into development or program management.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

make a 3 page web page.