Of all the teachers I've had, most have been ignorantly blind to the real world (because it wasn't "in the plan book") but the best of all time is my current AP Computer Science teacher (12th grade high school). Mr. Pieretti. In the 3 years I've had him for various computer science classes, he's taught me C++, Java, a bit of Perl, Forth, and Python. But best of all, he knows being smart isn't everything. It's being intelligent that matters. In my class I sit next to the top student in my class (We'll call him John), and doesn't have the ability to apply a single thing he knows. Mr. P has (on occasions) rubbed hard drive magnets across John's disk, rigged his computer to never compile the code, and screws with the resolution in NT (Yes, our school uses NT 4, and John is a WinME kind of guy, kind of funny to watch =). Mr. P has helped my set up an in school Linux server (Debian 2.2) with ftp so we can send our work on the weekends. He even tells me funny storys of punch cards, computers the size of small rooms, and FORTRAN. He keeps Mathematics books written in Latin, Has every OS released up to Windows 95. The various Mac OS, IBM DOS, MS-DOS (1.0!!!), OS/2, Distrubutions of UNIX, even has the Linux 1.0 kernel on CD!!! It's this man that has instilled in me a deep pride in the programming that I do, and has inspired me to keep at it, and to make him proud of what one of his students has given me. So, I ask, lets all raise a glass and here's to Mr. Pieretti, the short, funny man with the thick glasses, that would be a slashdotter, if he had the time. *clink*
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Of all the teachers I've had, most have been ignorantly blind to the real world (because it wasn't "in the plan book") but the best of all time is my current AP Computer Science teacher (12th grade high school). Mr. Pieretti. In the 3 years I've had him for various computer science classes, he's taught me C++, Java, a bit of Perl, Forth, and Python. But best of all, he knows being smart isn't everything. It's being intelligent that matters. In my class I sit next to the top student in my class (We'll call him John), and doesn't have the ability to apply a single thing he knows. Mr. P has (on occasions) rubbed hard drive magnets across John's disk, rigged his computer to never compile the code, and screws with the resolution in NT (Yes, our school uses NT 4, and John is a WinME kind of guy, kind of funny to watch =). Mr. P has helped my set up an in school Linux server (Debian 2.2) with ftp so we can send our work on the weekends. He even tells me funny storys of punch cards, computers the size of small rooms, and FORTRAN. He keeps Mathematics books written in Latin, Has every OS released up to Windows 95. The various Mac OS, IBM DOS, MS-DOS (1.0!!!), OS/2, Distrubutions of UNIX, even has the Linux 1.0 kernel on CD!!! It's this man that has instilled in me a deep pride in the programming that I do, and has inspired me to keep at it, and to make him proud of what one of his students has given me. So, I ask, lets all raise a glass and here's to Mr. Pieretti, the short, funny man with the thick glasses, that would be a slashdotter, if he had the time. *clink*