Christ Centered Gamer

I'm not exactly struggling with programming, though at the moment all we're doing is learning the logic behind it and flowcharting stuff in Raptor. Which is cool, but not really 'programming'. I just have a fairly deep dislike of school. >_> Though honestly, I'm actually more interested in computer repair.

Is there a way to fight the flatulence?

Did you ever have that one professor who was just terrible at writing assignment?

I just had to do a DB assignment where all we had to do was copy and paste the DBMS' sample SQL query into an auto-grader. Except he forgot to tell us to trim the last two lines (Which modified a table and dropped it. in that order) and to change the ordering of the primary key and value. At that point, I just went "Then why the frak are we copying and pasting anyway?".

Chozon1 wrote: Is there a way to fight the flatulence?

Beano.

Deepfreeze32 wrote:Did you ever have that one professor who was just terrible at writing assignment?

I just had to do a DB assignment where all we had to do was copy and paste the DBMS' sample SQL query into an auto-grader. Except he forgot to tell us to trim the last two lines (Which modified a table and dropped it. in that order) and to change the ordering of the primary key and value. At that point, I just went "Then why the frak are we copying and pasting anyway?".

Maybe he felt the syntax was too complicated for the peon students and by copy/pasting, fatfinger typos were eliminated...?

maybe...but then in class today he said "Oh yeah, you should just change the select statement because I can't be bothered to fix the assignment grading."

-_-

I'm very nearly going to go to my friends who have taken the class before and ask for their study guide (Or even just a list of topics) for the final. Then challenge the course. Because holy smokes this class is stupid.

/rage


Any experience with issue-tracking software?

Yeah we used Jira at my last job and there's talk of implementing it at my current one.

What little I used of Jira, I didn't particularly care for it (Unfortunately, I don't remember why... *cough*). I preferred Mantis and BugTracker, personally. Gemini's alright; I use that now.


So, what's your revision control of choice?

Revision control? You mean like SourceSafe?

CVS I've had the best experience with, as well as SVN (Subversion).

My friend, you should check out Git or Mercurial. Distributed revision control is where it's at.
I used SVN for several years and I liked it well enough, but after about an hour with Mercurial, I was spoiled.
Takes a little bit to get used to when coming from a centralized source control, but having your own local repository is pretty sweet.

But then, it's not like we have a whole lot of say what sort of source control the company uses. Although, we should be switching to Mercurial sometime soonish.


Favorite starship?

Actually, I do have a Github account where I've uploaded some of my work. It's cool, haven't done much more than that though.

Favorite Starship... USS Enterprise, NCC-1701

What about teh starship Unicorn?

Chozon1 wrote:What about teh starship Unicorn?

rep'd

NetBeans?

Nah I'm an Eclipse kind of guy myself.

Is there a way to control the insane urge to write something stupid on my tests?