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stefanos_:
according to bjarne stroustrup ANSI C++ [C++98] will be compatible with C++0x with minor changes. Also he mentioned that even the minor changes won't be totally removed but would still be compatible with the additional extra coding lines.

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--- Quote from: rickg22 on August 24, 2007, 06:06:02 pm ---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?)

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@Scubanator: rickg22 is right, smart professors usually agree to negociate, except if the school rules forbids it.

One year long ago (one year only, sadely) i went to the programming teacher at the beginning of the year, and showed him what i had already programmed (not related to the school). He realized i already knew all coming year lessons, so he proposed to give me straight 19/20 at each exam, plus the authorization, during the exams, to do what i wanted for myself in the room next to the exam room.
There were a transparent wall between the two rooms. Maybe the best experience i ever had in school: spending all the exams doing what i wanted  8), and all students eyes on me...  :shock:

Conclusion: don't hesitate to negociate with professors. Some could be stupid, but some easily do favor to some students.
Some absolutely want to be considered as knowing more than all students, but others don't mind recognizing the students know more.
If you are nice with them, you could get a lot from them!  :lol:

rickg22:

--- Quote from: stefanos_ on August 25, 2007, 07:50:37 pm ---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!

Stefanos

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This reminds me of that movie with Sean Connery, "finding Forrester". This teacher was being a bad@$$ with his students because he got frustrated at Forrester for ruining his writing career. Usually teachers vent up their frustrations with their students. I'm not saying it's ok... it's just part of human nature.

When an authority is this intolerant, I just can't stand it. I have to get even.  I go with higher authorities until they're beyond my reach. Then I go to the press or write a blog.

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