Oh, I guess I got so carried away I forgot the best part.
You could go down to the bookstore and shell out $25(!) for one of those LS120 "Super Disks".
So either shell out that much more money in addition to the required $82 textbook or get a C. To answer your question, I only observed one person with a superdisk.
But I saw the other instructor evaluations, and I would be suprised if she's teaching anything but cobol in the future.
I too had a bad experience with a professor at my university. Except this was in a real classroom environment.
I was forced to take a basic HTML class as a pre-req for my MIS major. However, with the university being so small, the only person they could find to teach the class was a cobol instructor. Yes, our school still teaches cobol.
She failed to realize that HTML isn't "placement sensitive", if I had extra spacing or linebreaks, it cost me points. Our work had to exactly match the answers in the teacher's edition of her textbook.
Also, when we got to some of the book's more in depth assignments, they would no longer fit on floopy disks. OK, no big deal. I'd just burn them onto a 29 cent CD-R. Nope. For some reason her computer system wasn't setup to where she could accept CD's. So I'll just do things the hard way and use WinZip disk spanning. Nope, can't do that either.
Being that the internet has been around for a while and everyone has their own web site, and being that this is also a web design class, I'll just put my work out on my site. Nuh uh, my HTML teacher evidently doesn't have the internet, or something.
So in the end, I didn't learn a thing (I spent the majority of my time helping my poor classmates), took my zero's, gave her horrible marks on the "end of instruction questionaire" that we have to fill out for the university, and took my crappy C and went on my way.
There are just bad teachers out there, internet and traditional.
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Oh, I guess I got so carried away I forgot the best part.
You could go down to the bookstore and shell out $25(!) for one of those LS120 "Super Disks".
So either shell out that much more money in addition to the required $82 textbook or get a C. To answer your question, I only observed one person with a superdisk.
But I saw the other instructor evaluations, and I would be suprised if she's teaching anything but cobol in the future.
-=Caleb=-
I too had a bad experience with a professor at my university. Except this was in a real classroom environment.
I was forced to take a basic HTML class as a pre-req for my MIS major. However, with the university being so small, the only person they could find to teach the class was a cobol instructor. Yes, our school still teaches cobol.
She failed to realize that HTML isn't "placement sensitive", if I had extra spacing or linebreaks, it cost me points. Our work had to exactly match the answers in the teacher's edition of her textbook.
Also, when we got to some of the book's more in depth assignments, they would no longer fit on floopy disks. OK, no big deal. I'd just burn them onto a 29 cent CD-R. Nope. For some reason her computer system wasn't setup to where she could accept CD's. So I'll just do things the hard way and use WinZip disk spanning. Nope, can't do that either.
Being that the internet has been around for a while and everyone has their own web site, and being that this is also a web design class, I'll just put my work out on my site. Nuh uh, my HTML teacher evidently doesn't have the internet, or something.
So in the end, I didn't learn a thing (I spent the majority of my time helping my poor classmates), took my zero's, gave her horrible marks on the "end of instruction questionaire" that we have to fill out for the university, and took my crappy C and went on my way.
There are just bad teachers out there, internet and traditional.
-=Caleb Newville=-