On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:06:58AM -0800, Olwe Bottorff wrote: > Well, if you think that, don't help me! In reality I'm > a new grad student who never really learned any of > this stuff before (in my 15+ years of database and Web > programming), but who now is expected to run labs on > it. Actually the previously prepared labs I was handed > were much duller, simpler, rote, but I insist on > giving the > students more. These questions I ask are for an OS > course and an intro Sys Programming class. My > university is not a top university, but I'm struggling > to learn, and struggling to present this material to > my students. Please look yourself in the mirror and ask you are doing those students a service or not. I always had troubles where the teacher was "learning" the subject matter as he went along. Especially on hard topics. C and systems programming are *hard* topics. Have you considered Java or Python for starting out in programming? As a beginner you get mired in memory allocations and strings and hash maps which are hard to get right even by "proffesionals". > I'm already 50 years old, but I came back to grad > school because I want to learn--and to get out of the > Dilbert scene which is all I've really known in the > working computer world. > > So, again, take it or leave it! If I don't get answers > from TCLUG, I'll just go somewhere else to build up my > knowledge bank. > > BTW, I'm taking classes in Programming Languages > (Robert Sebesta) and Algorithms (Thomas Corman, > et.al.), so if I ask any questions about these > subjects, yes, I'm cheating, don't answer them! There is nothing wrong with building a knowledge bank, but part of that is learning to do the research. This includes RTFM and STFW/G. Please read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060201/c148c6ce/attachment.pgp