azurelunatic | VB and the Newbie

VB and the Newbie

Apparently I am not as completely new to computing, programming, and VB as I thought.

It helps that the structure of making all the pretty pictures is fairly intuitive, but ... yeesh.

I think I'm going to go home now, and install the debilitated and crippled trial version of VB that came with the book on my home system, and get all my homework for this week done, and then print out at school whenever.

I know I'm great and cool and would make an awesome teacher, but I have to grab a greedy amount of time for myself. I'll publish my schedule at some point... oy. Oy vey. I have *no* days off. The closest thing I come to one, in fact, would be Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday/Sunday, said weekdays having a large chunk of afternoon time open, and said weekends having, respectively, from 1630 on free, and from 1430 on free.

I'll be online a lot, though, although not on any messenger programs necessarily. Leave a comment; leave an e-mail and holler at me.

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who is your vb teacher? not a polish guy, is he?

Some random bald black guy with an awesome sense of humor is teaching the class; his name is Ralph Pruitt; I may be misrepresenting his first name; I never get teachers' first names correct in the first week or three of class until I have a damn good reason to get them down correctly.

In any case, I like the class so far. He pretended to be a robot, and we had to program him to walk up some stairs. For a Mongolian Hordes program, we did fairly well, I think. Add to that the fact of an intelligent subject unwilling to let himself fall over too far, and that explains the rest.

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ah... i hoped maybe you got the teacher i had (if he's still there). he's a polish guy with a last name starting with "m" i think. anyway, i just wondered. vb was pretty okay. i am trying to teach myself oop with java (or is that java with oop? nah... it's oop with java for sure! <g!>). i wonder which would be easier? too bad they don't teach lisp.

you're very cool. i like you. glad to know there's someone like you out there in the beautiful desert (not that phoenix is so deserty, but you know what i mean). i actually lived in glendale, there near the corner of 51st and northern. i worked at the wherehouse at the mall for a time (if it's still there, it'd be a miracle).

well, anyway...

take care, and be well.

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The other teachers I know of who teach VB are:

Mike Potter (The Late Mr. Potter; the Loud Mr. Potter)
and
Evil Evil Evil Erbe

he must've moved on, then. pity. he was a great guy. glad you have someone you like, though.

Did you ever encounter the evil Mr. Erbe? Worst math teacher in the school. Taught Stats. Evil to the core, though he pretends to be this great jolly ol' guy. As my friend Alan put it:

"No, he's not a nice guy if that's the way he teaches. His teaching style is the outer manifestation of his inner asshole."

i must confess to having gotten away without the displeasure of ever having even known of the existence of this extreme sphincter-chokehold of a teacher. i am sorry you have been exposed to his virulent evil, but am pleased and relieved to note that you were seemingly unscathed (relatively speaking) by the ordeal.

i suggest listening to plaid or squarepusher to rid yourself of any potential karmic residue. tea might be a good idea, too, but it is anyway.

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I aced his class...

...*because* I didn't pay attention during it, to the extent of reading the Necronomicon during class ... and giving the teacher certain significant looks while reading it...

I also had a five-minute chat in the middle of the class on the topic of simple interest, and why we should know what to do with it. I'll spare you the gory details, but the guy didn't let me get to say what I needed to say, and just answered the question from his personal FAQ list that met most of the keywords I'd used. (Which wasn't the question I was asking, asswipe!) I finally said: "Never mind then. This class sucks!" and stomped out.

The Dean had a little chat with him after I had a little chat with the Dean. He behaved himself in class and was actually marginally helpful after that. Marginally.

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VB and the Newbie

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Polish? don't think so.

Re: Polish? don't think so.

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Re: Polish? don't think so.

Re: Polish? don't think so.

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Evil Teacher