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VB.net - Should I be doing this??

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cpals

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I just started a vb.net course this semester at my college and my teacher is nuts. I have had a intro to java course and then we changed courses and went to vb.net. Well, my teacher thinks that this course is going to be a intermediate vb.net course so we're going extremely fast. Last week we were in chapter 11 and he just gave us an assignment (without explaining it) and the only way to do it from what I've seen is to know chapter 19....

Anyways, I scanned the handout and was wondering what you think about it. We have not learned anything about connecting databases or error exception handling. What you see is pretty much what he's told us. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks a lot.

http://www.cpals.net/vb.gif <-- Handout
 
Yeah! The whole class is clueless... my professor doesn't care though. He says we should know this already... blah blah blah.

A few kids said that they've gone and talked to him and he doesn't help at all. Half the class has already dropped already so there's only like 10-12 people in the class now anyways.
 
Originally posted by: cpals
Yeah! The whole class is clueless... my professor doesn't care though. He says we should know this already... blah blah blah.

A few kids said that they've gone and talked to him and he doesn't help at all. Half the class has already dropped already so there's only like 10-12 people in the class now anyways.
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The problem with Universities vs Industry/cerification based schools is that people in Universities tend to forget that they are customers. You are giving these people your money correct? Use your chain of command: Talk to the teacher, talk to the department, talk to the dean. If you fail a class because you're stupid or didn't work hard enough, suck it up. If you fail a class because the University didn't provide you with an adequate teacher for the money you paid, raise hell. Get your money's worth.

I have a buddy right now taking a C++ class because I recommended the prof to him. Turns out they switched profs just before the class started and he's running into the same thing: basically the teacher just really sucks (first class taught too). Our school allowed him to drop and wiped the incomplete from his transcript.
 
Wow that's a pretty badly written assignment description. Do you have to work with an actual database? If not it seems you just write a standalone app that simulates a database engine on a very limited scale
 
Originally posted by: Alternex
Wow that's a pretty badly written assignment description. Do you have to work with an actual database? If not it seems you just write a standalone app that simulates a database engine on a very limited scale
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I'm not really sure... he didn't tell us much. How would I simulate a database engine? That sounds hard...
 
From reading the description, I don't think you need to do anything envolvind a database. Basically, I think you need to create classes that represent some sort of inputed data, but you don't have to "save" or "read" this data from a db.

I like that comment that "All GUIs are to be user-oriented". You should tell him the same about his "assignments".
 
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