This prof is about to explain how to code a table. This will take a while.
We spent the first 30 minutes talking about how to use an <img> tag. For 30% of our final we have to build a 10-page web page by hand (like I’ve ever done it any other way!). I asked a question about CSS since he had some basic inline elements lying about. I wanted to know whether we had to tag everything individually or if we could use stylesheets. I’m not kidding when I say his face lit up. He was thrilled I knew was it was. Then he explained to me, ignoring the rest of the class, how stylesheets were well outside the scope of this course and please don’t use them or you will confuse the marking TAs. I bet I can get that job next year, eh?
Now he’s handwriting code for a 2 row, 3 column website on the board and I’m… sitting here writing this :)
What do/did you do during dead classes?
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hahaha, most of my dead classes happen in the computer lab as well, so catching up on email, reading some news, sometimes working ahead in the class so it stays dead in the future but rarely on the last part :P
Like the above poster my dead classes where all computer classes. I would mess around with slashdot, or other news sites and make smart ass comments about what the professor was saying. (of course the smart ass comments stayed only in my head, but hey it made the time go by.) Schools really need to have more “test-out” options for people who work with computers. After all its really a sad waste of money to pay for a class you basicly have no need for other then the 2-4 credits you get for sitting in the chair.
My only computer lab class was equally useless, but alas the professor was never more than a few feet away from me, the monitor always facing him.
Yep. I remember all too well. We surfed, played solitaire, caught up on other class work, even optimized the workstations. It was a snooze-fest.
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