Subj : Re: Taking a community college CIS/C++ course
To   : fusion
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 17 2024 18:19:08

  Re: Re: Taking a community college CIS/C++ course
  By: fusion to Digital Man on Wed Jan 17 2024 09:09 pm

 > On 17 Jan 2024, Digital Man said the following...
 >
 >  DM> I plan to take the follow-up C++ courses (at minimum) at this same
 >  DM> community college and will hopefully get a better sense of what the
 >  DM> other professors have to offer. I hope it gets better, but either way,
 >  DM> it's been fun so far. --
 >
 > what do you do for homework, interactions in class, etc? are you pretending
 > to be a noob or do they know what you're up to?

It's an online course with about 40 students. I was honest about my background and reasons for taking the class. I'm not the only experienced programmer in the class (at least one other is a very experienced Java developer).

The course work mostly is watching videos, reading chapters from the book (not really necessary), reading articles and discussing on a web-board or reading descriptions of assignments and then writing and submitting the source code that completes the assignment. It's a 6 week course, so it's pretty dense. 2 week in and I think I've submitted something like 15 assignments already (but very easy programming tasks for experienced C or C++ programmer, the time consuming part is just making sure that every trivial detail in the assignment description is addressed in the submitted code).

I created a Discord server for the class and have been tutoring students there when I have time too.
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