Re: Why people perceive ASM to be hard to read


Guga wrote:
> Randall wrote:
>
> "You can be "Wolfganian" here, and claim that I must not know what I'm
> talking about because "I'm a professor" (which isn't true, I am not and
> never *was* a "professor") or that this is all just "academic
> nonsense". But the fact is that everyone else is telling the same thing
> should be a clue that your understanding of the problem is a bit off
> here. "
>
> You were not a professor ? You were not a teacher ?

Professor is an official title at most schools having to do with rank,
degree, and what-not. I was officially titled a "lecturer".

>
> I don´t understand this....The other day you said you was an engineer,
> right ? You also said you worked at a University teaching students more
> then 5 years ago, right ?

As a lecturer, yes.

>
> So, If you "teached" (Forgot the proper verb nomination, sorry), how
> can you say you never was a professor ? Isn´t professor the same
> meaning as teacher, in english ?

No, it is not.
At UC and Cal State (the two schools where I taught), "professor" is an
official title.

>
> Or assembly was a out of schedule class in the university, where "non
> professors" could freely only talk to the students. I mean, those
> "lessons" counted for nope in the academic evaluation, and final exams

There are TAs (teaching assistants, usually grad students), lecturers,
assistant professors, associate professors, professors, and emiritus
professors at UC (there may be other classifications, those are the
ones that I remember.

At UC, the main job of a professor (any kind) is *research*. The main
job of a lecturer is to teach.


>
> If you are not a professor and you claim you were onto a university to
> teach youngers, then in US anybody can enter to a university to talk to
> students to a non schedule graduation class ? (I mean, anybody with
> something that is of interest for the university)

Though the generic term "professor", like "doctor", means "teacher", at
most Universities in the States, "professor" is a specific title. The
fact that you taught someone at a university does not entitle you to
call yourself a "University Professor."

Though I did about five years of research in Computer Science (in
Operating Systems design, to be exact) and I've had several papers
published, I was never hired, nor did I ever desire to be hired, as a
professor.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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