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rickg22:
Scubanator:

Ask the professor for a deal. Since you're a proficient C++ programmer right now, ask him to give you a final and make the project in C::B. Later you can convert it to VC++. Ta-da! :D

Anyway this remembers of a computing professor i had in high school. He gave me a 90% instead of a 100% because i answered "DIR /S" (command for listing with subdirectories) instead of "DIR/S" (without space). Both approaches worked, but he INSISTED that his approach was the CORRECT ONE!  :o Can you believe that?

Stupid professors :P (can you see the irony in this statement?)

stefanos_:
Scubanator my friend I understand you, trust me / believe me..I perfectly do!!! Let me tell you my story. It's sounds similar to yours. But please, do not do my mistake.

The reason I quit college it's because of a professor who had the knowledge of everything but lacked the charisma to "transmit" it to anyone. Plus he was the only one who was teaching all the important courses (C++, Assembly, Operating Systems, Data Structures etc) so with no chance I was able to pass :/ Honestly, financially he destroyed me. He was a genius I must admit that. He knew and still knows a lot, but still he uses his graduation knowledge and not what exists at present. To give you a hint of my situation, he had a special way to "teach" C++ with methods of C...exclusively!!! Yeap...that's right!

I was telling him to use the method of <iostream> instead of <iostream.h> so he may use namespaces for his convenience because that's the proper / new ANSI / ISO Standard way (of course for portability too) and he was insisting to use C ways not to mention he was not changing his mind that his method is totally wrong.

 - You know how many times he was displaying the output with something like this: "printf(%d...etc);"?
 - He couldn't accept the fact that "using namespace std;" actually work with C++! Because of that I told him a few bad things and since then he hated me because of that. "Sir, what floor are we right now? Fifth Stefanos why? Because what you say right now is "OK guys if you jump from fifth floor and try bunging jumping without a rope it will be perfectly safe for you, go and try it". Am I right?" Reaction: GET OOOOOUT!!!

His personal quote: Guys come on! You are Computer Science for God's name.
My reply: Sir you are mistaken. We are not Computer Science yet. We came here to become one! So make us..help us to become one!

That's my story.

My personal advice goes like this:

 - Study lots of good books (valuable references, I may give examples to everyone)
 - Learn from your mistakes and move on with your life.
 - When you have made a mistake be very happy because SUPRISE :) You have gain extra knowledge with research to similar errors.
 - Apply the Musician's Rule: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE and that is everyday.
 - Best Time to practice? After 21:00. Most of the time you may practicing your multitasking procedure too without realizing it (programming_late_at_night() == INSOMNIA()). You know what I'm saying..;)
 - I used to combine Heavy Metal with programming but for some reason was not working :/ I tried something really awkward and since then works like a charm...[come on guys stop laughing...] chill out songs keeps my balance [especially Celine Dion]. High brain speed with low tones' music gives me inspiration for discovering / digesting new functions - classes etc.
 - I learn whatever I want on my own. Whatever I have learnt until now is with hard work, real sweat . No one was born with knowledge. Knowledge is each man's mind adventure written down on a piece of paper (or whatsoever nowadays with technology).
 - Follow each example was given to you from all guys here and go with your teacher's way. Do not fight him back with emails and bad words. Show him your work on test, participation, project(s) and if you want at later time you may send him an exercise of yours and like that I am sure he will get the message.

Sorry for the "short" reply.

Btw forgive your professor for his behavior. I am sure he has child issues. Most probably he was bitten from others a lot of times when he was young. He didn't choose to be like that. He was born to inherit this "gift".

Regards,

Stefanos_

P.S: If I am not mistaken, dir/s does not work under Windows 3.x until 98SE. Maybe he was using 98? :D I am not sure but do not get offended like that. I have tried somewhere a few years ago (dir/w/s) and didn't work; so I had to add the whitespace between them to make it work :/ Maybe that was the issue.

mitsukai:
he is right there must be spaces in cmd lines, doesnt neccesarily have to be wrong not doing so, but i think its the right approach.


i agree with you teaching C in C++... do i need to say more?
u should have gone to to the principle or whoever will listen to you, maybe even the direction, that he is teaching C or old C++ standards and not C++.
im sure the direction board would have listened you, especially if you tell them that he did not want to listen to you to correct the mistakes, a good professor will listen to students and research what is wrong and right.
you said he had "knowledge" in your post i sense otherwise :)

stefanos_:
Mitsukai my friend I just mentioned the 0.0001% of my story. Trust me, about what happened next not a lot of people knows. He throw me the sponge in the face and I went to the Principle, Direction and the like to complain about him.

You want to know their answer? You haven't seen anything, you haven't heard anything!

So I quit from college and I start work as Systems Administrator for 2 years and right now I work as S.E.O for a Web Services company. Everything is about experience, trust me.

About his knowledge: He is the only human being I know that was active in lots of Research Projects about X-Rays, Ultra-Sound, 3D Image Rendering with Real Images, plus had the time to [supposely] teach, raise family, bla bla bla.

The guy was so psychotic with technology that was walking with coordinations of X's and Y's. Oh another thing :D listen to this! when we were doing something wrong or asked something innocently dumb he was shouting "Invalid, Error" :DDDD We talking about SERIOUS ISSUES!

Waiting for your comments :D

Stefanos

JGM:
Well I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one who went thru this kind of situation.

I took some classes with a professor that had some doctorate in computer Engineering and he was always improvising the class. He doesn't even know programming. That professor was only a doctorate title.

I was really frustrated beacuse I wanted to learn. So is true, I got to buy books and study by my self. Today with 22 years I'm still learning. Just won a title on computer science, after all, some universities teach, and others just give you the title, you're on your own. Is this world some times is needed a title to success.

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