Some years ago, a friend was taking going for CS and had to take an 80x86 assembler course. At the time I was coding hundreds of lines of ASM a day so I was very familiar with it.

His Professor didn't have a clue. He was giving them assignments that could not possibly be completed with what they had learned at that point. This happend pretty much throughout the course. I helped my friend and he was one of the few people to actually complete anything. The prof would be asking him questions. At the end of the year they wouldn't pass him saying that he couldn't have completed the assignments and must have had someone else do it for him. I guess the moral is that no one is infallable. Not to put down taking the educational path, but I've met many CS Masters who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. So choose schools wisely.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

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