oh yeah, i cheated my way through his class (thanks, angie!!!!) because i didn't want to waste hours of my time in the computer lab typing out DOS command strings and saving the results on a floppy disk. the fucked up part is, i copied off angie's final exam results and she got a 95 and i got a 65. even though we turned in the exact same test results!
the art department had absolutely NO student computers, and no computer/graphic design classes what so ever. the department head tried desperately to get with the times, but they were denied time and time again from the dean.
i was taking (required to take, i should say) an introductory to basic home computer use course, from out of the computer science building. they very briefly touched on windows, and spent the rest of the class teaching us to use "lotus 123" (which was last updated in 1987) and DOS command prompts. oh, and there weren't ANY computers in this class excpet for the professor's computer (that ran on windows NT, which he never used) which was rigged to an overhead projector so we could watch him type in command prompts. he got irate at me one day because i didn't take his class seriously, and i asked him why did we have to learn outdated programs from the 80s that are no longer in use, and why not use windows 98 or ME since windows has the same spreadsheet, wordprocessor, and database programs, on top of being the number 1 operating system for home PCs. it would only make sense for him to teach us students in an introductory computer usage class something we would all use on a daily computer use basis. he then went on a rant about how expensive that would be, and how everyone should know how to use DOS and it's command prompts.
I guess I'm kind of lucky that my University updates its computers pretty often. Then again, there are lots of programs that rely on said computers (modern motion capture technology doesn't work on old computers, after all).
My animation class in high school also got spoiled...nice computers every few years and the newest version of Cinema 4D (I looked up how much a copy for use on one computer would cost...I don't know about you, but I don't have 2K to spend on ANY software, not matter what sort of neat stuff you can do with it).
json at 6:36PM, July 14, 2009
sure, the score i actually earned was a 0. minor detail :)
drunkenpaladin at 6:24AM, July 14, 2009
You got a zero for cheating, but 65 bonus points for cheating off the smart girl. I think DOS might have been more stable than Windows ME, though.
json at 12:17PM, July 12, 2009
oh yeah, i cheated my way through his class (thanks, angie!!!!) because i didn't want to waste hours of my time in the computer lab typing out DOS command strings and saving the results on a floppy disk. the fucked up part is, i copied off angie's final exam results and she got a 95 and i got a 65. even though we turned in the exact same test results!
json at 12:14PM, July 12, 2009
the art department had absolutely NO student computers, and no computer/graphic design classes what so ever. the department head tried desperately to get with the times, but they were denied time and time again from the dean. i was taking (required to take, i should say) an introductory to basic home computer use course, from out of the computer science building. they very briefly touched on windows, and spent the rest of the class teaching us to use "lotus 123" (which was last updated in 1987) and DOS command prompts. oh, and there weren't ANY computers in this class excpet for the professor's computer (that ran on windows NT, which he never used) which was rigged to an overhead projector so we could watch him type in command prompts. he got irate at me one day because i didn't take his class seriously, and i asked him why did we have to learn outdated programs from the 80s that are no longer in use, and why not use windows 98 or ME since windows has the same spreadsheet, wordprocessor, and database programs, on top of being the number 1 operating system for home PCs. it would only make sense for him to teach us students in an introductory computer usage class something we would all use on a daily computer use basis. he then went on a rant about how expensive that would be, and how everyone should know how to use DOS and it's command prompts.
The Gravekeeper at 8:07AM, July 12, 2009
I guess I'm kind of lucky that my University updates its computers pretty often. Then again, there are lots of programs that rely on said computers (modern motion capture technology doesn't work on old computers, after all). My animation class in high school also got spoiled...nice computers every few years and the newest version of Cinema 4D (I looked up how much a copy for use on one computer would cost...I don't know about you, but I don't have 2K to spend on ANY software, not matter what sort of neat stuff you can do with it).
Mushroomcomix at 1:24AM, July 12, 2009
That reminds of the computers we had in High School...the newest thing we had was one IMac that everyone fought over.