[quote name='corrosivefrost']I looked on kotaku and engadget... and glanced at the forums here, but figured i'd just ask plume the next time he was around. i'm lazy like that. hallmark of a good programmer, y'know?

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Heh...that about sums it up.
That reminds me of a programming course I took in college. Normally, the dean taught it, but he was out that semester having surgery, so they brought in someone who had
never taught before to teach a second year VB class. She rarely used the text book, so we had no idea what she was referring to (Year 1 and 2 used the same book, so you were building on what you learned), but instead assigned things that we had to go out and get different reference material not mentioned in the syllibus. (I

ing hate classes that make you buy expensive books and rarely use them...)
All but about 6 people dropped the class. I wish I did too. (She was my only B, plus she completely screwed up grading my final exam so that it was a failing grade. Thankfully, I got her to rescore it so that it was the B it really was. And this wasn't a matter of arguing over being incorrect - she simply added up the total wrong.

)
The best thing about the class: We had a guy in there that was a programmer. He failed the class. We'd sit on break having a smoke and he'd get so frustrated, saying things like, "Why does she want us to do this, when it makes more sense to do this instead?" or "Nobody declares arrays like that! She is just adding more trouble!" :lol: