So, we had a set of tasks
- make a program that asks for an input name and writes "<insert name> is a silly name"
- make a program that asks for two input names and displays them in reverse order
- make a program that asks for three names and reverses them and displays all three
In Java - with pre-written dialogue box code...
So it's 5-10 lines of code.
Someone asked for help... so I gave them some help, then three or four others asked for help... spent so much time helping that I barely got time to finish the essential tasks (there was an advanced task too) and I still have to upload those to the school network for marking and the class is over...
This is the first class - all of the information needed was in the class material that was available all last week, and the two hour lecture in the morning... have I doomed myself to doing the same task as the Mentors (the Computer and Information Systems department has a dedicated team of "CIS - Mentors" who can put mentoring on their CV) without getting the credit for it?
Someone has my phone number now to ask for help!
This could be an intense year.
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You've done really well. In the film Scum it seems to take Ray Winstone's character a fair bit of time to become 'the daddy' (or mummy) but it sounds like you cracked it on the first day.
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I always thought the very first thing you did in Java was get it to output "Hello World"
Also it's the rule that every Java book must start with the paragraph "Java was originally called oak because of the large oak tree in the garden of the university. Upon discovering that there was already a programming language called oak they renamed it Java after their favourite coffee bean"
That was 15 years ago mind- things may have progressed - I'm guessing students no longer use books
Loads of people are lazy and want to be spoon fed.
Remember The Matrix.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Thankfully I have a week to upload it all - which gives me a chance to do the bit of work in the advanced bit that they didn't get to...