Name: Anonymous 2014-06-07 14:25
I'm still recovering from this.. It was my first exposure to programming and it lasted two years.
We started with ASM and that's how we learned recursion, by comparing an iterative vs. a recursive fibonacci generator. The iterative one was literally 3 lines and the recursive one was 30 - EVERYONE had trouble writing it and it ran millions of times slower! Since I've been reading SICP it's crazy, they just use recursion everywhere - I'm still really cautious of recursion
For the webapps part he never mentioned ANYTHING, EVER about escaping. I learned about this afterwards and we were taught to build SQL queries manually and never worry about user input anywhere, at all. I shudder thinking about what will happen when these people go work in webdev..
And then Prolog.. holy SHIT. NO ONE UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING. It was four weeks of COMPLETE CHAOS. He wouldn't help anyone either. I don't even know if he knew Prolog. It was fucking stupid got it makes me angry thinking about it. Not one person was able to complete the "AI project" midterm.
On the final exam we had to rewrite without goto, a whole bunch of random C functions code from various open source projects like openssl. What the fuck was this guy thinking? Just projecting his programming prejudices onto us?
We started with ASM and that's how we learned recursion, by comparing an iterative vs. a recursive fibonacci generator. The iterative one was literally 3 lines and the recursive one was 30 - EVERYONE had trouble writing it and it ran millions of times slower! Since I've been reading SICP it's crazy, they just use recursion everywhere - I'm still really cautious of recursion
For the webapps part he never mentioned ANYTHING, EVER about escaping. I learned about this afterwards and we were taught to build SQL queries manually and never worry about user input anywhere, at all. I shudder thinking about what will happen when these people go work in webdev..
And then Prolog.. holy SHIT. NO ONE UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING. It was four weeks of COMPLETE CHAOS. He wouldn't help anyone either. I don't even know if he knew Prolog. It was fucking stupid got it makes me angry thinking about it. Not one person was able to complete the "AI project" midterm.
On the final exam we had to rewrite without goto, a whole bunch of random C functions code from various open source projects like openssl. What the fuck was this guy thinking? Just projecting his programming prejudices onto us?