[HTC Amaze 4G] SuperAfnan:
Funny Computer programming stories in 8TH grade

Yeah I had an abysmal teacher who was an old geezer teaching computer programming in 8th grade. This was actually not too long ago! He was also deaf in his right ear and partly blind. What a coincidence, by the way, his name was Mr. Fair. He was pretty old, he said he was an computer engineer guy in the US Military (in the 1960's). He was a good man, but he was a horrible teacher lol. That has got to be one of the most messed up classes I was in. Basically every day we COPIED a program off the board, half the kids' programs didn't even work since they usually missed a comma that destroyed the entire program... He went over HTML, Javascript, and Java. Nobody understood Javascript, some understood a LITTLE bit of Java. I understood HTML, not so much Java. All I currently remember from that is the "system.out.println/system.out.print" and the if then statements from Java. I will go over it later on, it actually wasn't hard. But the way he taught it, no one actually learned anything since we were doing it on iMacs (WTF) and not actual traditional IBM/Windows computers. Ugh he made us copy dozens of programs from the board, lots plus it was on the Mac text editor ("pages"?). That equated to lots of eye strain, that's how people become myopic. Anyway, the only reason everyone passed that class is because everyone worked together and shared their programs. If the two people who actually knew code didn't help, EVERYONE would've failed. Thank god!

One time we had a substitute who was obese (I would say >= 400lbs), I felt bad for him. But some kid in the middle opened the browser, and wrote "You fat f***", put the volume on full blast, and used the Mac's text-to-voice thing. The computer read it out loud, everyone heard it, they started screaming and saying "OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH", the guy who did it never got caught because of how he was seated, and because the sub was practically immobile.

Another time we had a strict substitute who was an idiot and didn't let us use flash drives. Half the kids had their programs on their flash drives! Barely anyone got work done anyway.

Sometimes I got bored and downloaded random programs off the net, I found a bunch and borrowed some code which helped. :good:

One of my friends was sneaky one day and he pulled out ALL the plugs behind the Macs. The way the desks were setup were that the teacher was in the back, so we could view all computers at all times. There was a middle aisle for walking, and computers were on the right and left. There was a projector board that we copied the programs from. For some reason he didn't see that one fat boy pull the plugs out for every Mac in the classroom. The next day the teacher got really mad, said that could have short-circuited the computers, and everyone was staring at my friend the whole time since he was the one who obviously did it.

I honestly think that the retirement age should be lowered. People that old shouldn't be teaching, they lose a lot of perception and senses. There needs to be a large overhaul in Florida school systems. It just doesn't work.

I have many stories to tell. Middle school was a crazy time in my life.