Re: Is my CS instructor nuts?
- From: Charles Richmond <richchas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:24:46 -0500
"Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
"Off with their heads!!!" -- The Queen of Hearts
* Mark Gillan:
I've been taking weekend courses in C. Our professor said that in the
coming weeks, our first project will be an audio spectrum analyzer. I
don't know the first thing about audio, let alone what an audio
spectrum analyzer is used for. A few other students think that this
is far too advanced for our skill level, and beyond most of the
class' knowledge. I agree. Is this really a project for just
beginning programmers?
Audio-spectrum analyzer has nothing to do with it, but the complexity of
the program has.
If you're unable to tackle the assignment /because/ it's about something
you haven't heard of -- not because of inherent complexity -- then
you're not fit for CS, because it's all the time about new things.
I had this problem with some students when I gave them an assignment to
generate guitar chord diagrams. It could be solved by simple loops and
modulo arithmetic (which was the point), and all necessary information
was provided, but while some did fantastic things with graphical user
interface -- my intention was only text output -- others protested
loudly that they'd never played the guitar, knew nothing about notes or
whatever, and "therefore" couldn't do it. Whiners; I marked them down.
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