Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/10/22/19:01:21
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Heya
>
> > > The training wouldn't really be that hard would it? The kind of thing the school
> > > would be teaching would be ANSI-C orientated right?
> >
> > Kinda... people in general don't like change a whole lot. If something changes,
> > they have to figure it out... and it will cause them grief and misery. My
> > teachers figure, if it aint broke... don't fix it.
>
> But it's almost the same!!! I hated school for that same reason!!! Noone wants anyone
> to try and figure out anything new never mind having to change themselves!
>
> > > but if your school doesn't, why not ask them if you can use DJGPP
> > > instead of BC/++ > to do projects, etc. ?
> > >
> >
> > We do, but sometimes, they want future classes to be able to look at our
> > programs, and use/improve/learn from them. And when we leave, so will DJGPP's
> > presence, and nobody will be able to use our stuff... It's kind of like a
> > legacy thing.
>
> Definitely sounds like my old school... We had to do all our projects in Turbo Pascal 7
> 'cause they didn't like us using DJGPP C/Allegro and getting projects that looked 1000s
> of times better than anyone else's projects.
>
> I could have killed the teacher that did that!!!
>
> I would explain to them that what a school is there for is for the better development
> of people's knowledge, not for the betterment of the school... By having BC/++ and
> limiting the people that are striving toward their goals they may be getting their
> "legacy" but they are missing the whole idea anyway!!! I'd rather have people working
> for me that know what they are doing then people who pretended they know what they are
> doing because they wouldn't change!!!
With DJGPP, you have allegro, and Jonipx, RSXNTDJ,
and tons of various other stuff... by writing code under djgpp, I've learned to
use libraries, but I haven't learned any of the low level algorythms it takes
to do serious graphics... heck, for me and most of the programmers in my class,
without allegro, we are still in text mode. Using DJGPP is robbing us of
knowledge.
Now if we were advanced enough to where we could write our own
graphics routines, and sound routines, and networking routines, libraries
would make things easier, however, in the course I am in (Computer Science
Projects) they simply don't have the time to go into in-depth stuff about
programming, and it's not that the teacher isn't qualified, we just don't have
the time.
* (Jared gets off his soap box and puts it away...)
--
Jared Stevens
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