Anyone here have any good CS class stories, or maybe some good STEM major stories in general?
Not a great story but to start:
>Be me
>Intro to programming class
>We all take turns introducing ourselves
>Godwhy.mp3
>One guy's turn in the back
>Goes on to brag about how much "experience" he has in programming
>Claims to have been programming since he was just a boy
>Proudly claims the class will be an "easy A"
>Literally drops out right after taking the first exam
i used to take xanax before going in and would sleep in the computer lab, lined up the office chairs and crashed and a cs class was held in there every day i slept and i never knew until a few weeks later
>kindamissthatcozyroom;_;
Yup I got a few.
>Taking 2nd year algorithms class taught in C++
>Professor is a short fat guy with Albert Einstein hair. Like a cross between Einstein and George Constanza.
>All course material is handwritten
>Can’t read anything, literally chicken scratches
>Prof is obsessed with chess, spends half the class talking about unrelated material
>Class is one giant clusterfuck, half the students drop, including me
>Regret dropping because the curve was ludicrous. Friend had like a 40% average and a B+
>Be in high school, circa 2005
>Taking intro to Java
>Classmate figures out classroom phone number
>Uses TTY to impersonate school secretary
>Repeatedly send annoying kid to the office
I took this summer class last year and it only had ~30 students instead of the typical 300+ so we were in a small classroom and able to interact with the professor easier.
Had this one kid in the class, I’ll never forgetting his name, Rex Gao. He was a 20 something year old fat asian man. He was like 6’2, weighed probably 230+, and had greasy long hair that went slightly above his ass. He was just extremely cringe and strange. Some examples:
>always raises his hand to ask questions. ALWAYS.
>when he does this, he’ll constantly repeat “i..im sorry” “s..sorry” “again..s-sorry” throughout/after his question, as if he has done something wrong. At one he said sorry 3 times after the professor answered his question and the professor said “dude, you don’t have to apologize”.
>one day I’m standing at the front of class before it started
>he arrives
>randomly says to me, out loud in front of everyone else waiting for class to start “you look really muscley...do you workout” (I’m like 5’11 145lbs) I say...”uhhh sometimes...” he goes “oh sorry..what’s ur favorite lift..u look like an athlete...”
>I just laugh and sit down
>midterm coming up next class meeting
>he asks professor “s..sorry.. on the day of the midterm...can I sit in the front..I get distracted easy..”
>there’s no seating assignment you literally just show up and sit wherever u please
>midterm day
>Rex comes in, sits in second row instead of first like he planned
>Student sitting in front of him is lightly shaking his foot, like barely moving it, waiting for exams to be passed out
>Rex tells him “hey...can u stop shaking your foot...it is distracting me so much..s-sorry”
>guy looks at him like what the fuck and goes “no”
>Rex gets up, moves to front row and sits right next to the guy
This post doesn’t do justice, but the guy pretty much made everyone in the class cringe/feel embarrassment everyday. He was just so odd.
>Had a cyber security class
>Professor asking the audience for types of cybersecurity attacks
>someone answers him: "The nigerian prince"
>Everybody is laughing including the professor
I had this class in my bachelors. The answers was quite unexpected.
>Stay up all night working on final project for freshman programming class
>Go to final lecture of the year
>Immediately fall asleep in my chair, snoring and drooling like a baby
>project teammate (cute Chinese girl, 1 of 3 girls in the class) wakes me up
>embarrassed as hell, try to get up and leave
>legs are asleep so I trip and fall down the stairs in the lecture hall
>now everyone is looking at me
>crawl up the stairs and out the door
>finish the class with an A
poor kid
hahaha I had an aspie grill in my class that was just like this man, I swear I had to cover my ears every time she'd ask a question.
>Be me
>Take Multiprocessor Architecture class
>Grad level class
>Get prepared for an intense time
>Professor tells us he is underprepared for course, but will do his best
>Okay whatever
>After a couple more classes, realize the professor has no idea what he is talking about
>Hasn't even mentioned anything about multiprocessing or architecture and clearly doesn't know shit
>The entire class is to build a project and write a 5 page report
>areyouserious.jpg
>Discuss with him idea to use OpenMP to simulate the effectiveness of an IoT system using Multi-Core Programming (Proffesor had a thing for IoT, so swung it in that direction)
>He rejects idea
>He says to use OpenMP on RaspberryPi to implement a multi-core IoT System
>Not going into details, but basically 4 nodes need to pass information to each other while also reading information.
>His idea didn't really need OpenMP and wasn't difficult, but fuckit its an easy reason to learn OpenMP.
>He agrees
>Start working on it, learning OpenMP, and whatnot.
>Discuss progress with professor a couple weeks later
>Professor says that instead of 1 RaspberryPi connecting all 4 nodes, I should have 4 RaspberryPi's per node.
>Wtf.img
>Might as well start attaching Raspberry Pi's to fucking chairs with that logic
>He suggests I use a microcontroller like an Arduino or MSP430 for each node
>How the fuck is this even close to multi-processors?
>Professor thought multi-processing was communicating via IR.
>dafuq.png
>Complete the project in 3 days
>Never show up to class again until presentation
Complained to the Dean about how shit the class was. Pissed I paid graduate level tuition for that bullshit. Apparently many others complained. Also learned that this professor is a complete piece of shit and would sneak his name on other professors papers so he could get credit for them. Also learned that the professor is never going to teach another class and was happy about that, the piece of fuck.
>taking freshman class in discrete math
>professor is Chinese with thick accent
>nobody can understand anything
>he tries to be clever and use some probability proof to prove that America is inside of China
>idiot friend turns to me and says “yo dude, he lost me as soon as he said america was in China”
>>Professor thought multi-processing was communicating via IR.
and thats how i know it is fake
hey at least you made a project, in my parallelism course all we did was learn how to split matrices for like 3 months.
I wish it was fake. This professor hasn't learned anything new in 20 years I'm pretty sure.
I would have rather learned theory than do a micro-controller project. But hey, to each their own.
>be in CS
>everyone is retarded and will be shitty dev
current state of computer science.
>be in CS
>never go to any classes, just show up for exams
>graduate and start working a six figure job
Wow that was hard
>underaged af
>be me, borderline aspie
>second year of CS program in State U, late 90s
>fail half of first year classes due to social stress and lack of coping mechanisms
>retake classes
>everything from previous year clicks instantly
>get stuck on team with giant Samoan football player, only in CS because "it'll pay good yeah?"
>not at all geared for CS-thinking, but literally the nicest guy I've ever met in my life
>tries to get me out of my shell as I try to teach him Java
>and I mean we both honestly try our hardest to grow
>gets me more comfortable while I get him solid Cs and even a B now and then
>we eventually fail each other though
>he drops out
>still can't look at people in the eyes
I'll never forget you, you party-loving Hawaiian bro. I sincerely wish I could've done more for you.
>Be me
>Walk into computer science I
>Know it will be easy
>First exam comes
>Don't study
>Rush through
>93%
>Pattern continues
>Final exam comes
>Don't study
>Finish it in around 17 minutes, made sure to look at the clock when I left
>Score comes in
>95%
>Tons of people complained all semester that the class was too hard
Can I have my degree already fucking white people
>fucking white people
Good goy
>Day one of intro to programming
>Professor: "Hello, my name is Blaze; last name, Ur"
/sci/ was right
I can't stand professors that make people do this. Why the fuck would I care about where some random dickhole is from or his fucking major? Fucking retarded
Dude in the trashcan is pretty good teacher if you start from no prior programming experience
People who brag a lot have already reached their peak potential
So if you didn't study and got 90+ multiple times, what was your exam for ?
General knowledge ?
Either you are in a shitty uni or you are lying.
He probably goes to a community college where the exams are piss easy and/or they blatantly let you cheat
This. Anyone that claims they easily get A's on exams without studying and isn't a business/communications/other bullshit major is a liar.
i'm not even a very good programmer, but I started with a java class in high school and I swear all my classmates were RETARDS. I would sometimes try help people around me and they always did the dumbest bullshit, like leaving out a bunch of ;({ and just having shit they copied from me written wrong and in random parts of their code. there were only like 2 other dudes who knew what they were doing
>go to cs class
>always some high kid passed out on the chairs
You have to remember, this is Jow Forums. Apparently we have people here that are 300 iq geniuses knocking out cal II, physics II and data structures before they finish pre-school. Not one thread goes by without some autist having the need to claim how smart they supposedly are.
>be me
>decent enough with programming/tech throughout high school
>graduate a year early, and go to college for programming.
>get there expecting it to be full of people who enjoy tech/ know what the fuck they're talking about.
>boywasiwrong.png
>literally every pleb there are faggots who thought programming/IT was just an easy career, or some get rich quick scheme.
>Even teacher uses Windows Vista, desktop full of bullshit, accidentally set his taskbar to autohide didn't know how to turn it off.
>One pleb accidentally set his laptop resolution to 800x600, and didn't know how to change it back.
>Teachers are slow at teaching, and absolutely retarded.
>Basically doing the online Cisco courses at fucking turtle speed because teacher goes over it with us.
>In programming course two semesters in we were still on html BASICS.
>Linux server teacher runs old ass version of Fedora Workstation.
>Drop out.
>Do online courses.
>Learn in fucking 2 weeks what it took 2 months for those lesser life forms to teach me.
>Don't go to college.
>give up Computer Engineering Faculty at horrible joke uni
>get to good CS Faculty at good uni
>fail first year
>another year wasted
>get back
>barely manage to get enough credit points in the first semester (yuropoor here)
>start questioning whether I am retarded or my colleagues are cheating faggots
>mfw they are cheating faggots who won't learn shit
I literally had one chick unable to search for Google Chrome on Windows 10. She has more exams taken than I do.
i did finish a few etec classes like that because i was taught the same shit in high school
>highschool grade 11 in 2003
>mandatory typing class for everyone
>jesus christ really?
>everyones fast as fuck at typing already
>everyones got a computer at home and knows how to type
>whatever at least it will be easy
>we just play flash games on the internet when the retarded typing assignments are done
>this one kid leans over and asks if I want to see something cool
>"okay"
>he starts doing naruto ninjistu handsigns really fast
Dude it's fucking CompSci 1, easy shit if you've already learned some simple programming.
>going to college to learn
It's just for the degree lad
> taking course teaching things like UML and proper architecture design
> after every test, we're asked to leave the room until everyone is finished
> sperg in class is always last
> see the door open which means sperg is done
> sperg raises his arms over his head and shouts, "Fucking Ni**ers!"
> everyone looks around
> teacher is behind sperg when he does it
> teacher's face was priceless
Yet pajeets like you go around the class begging to cheat off of someone, even offer to pay money for it
DLP® by Texas Instruments
Java. Functions, variables loops etc all that basic shit. Final exam also included inhertience. Multiple choice with some parts where we handwrite code
State college.
It's like fit where everyone has god tier lifting stats and has the body of Arnold, but never post pictures themselves
>Ni**ers
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There, it's not that hard, see?
embarassing
>be me CE undergrad
>always do good projects and shit and be the guy in the groups who does most work
>complimented by most peers
>get out of school
>5 years neet because of crippling anxiety
yikes
Kek
>be me
>be oldfag
>turn of the century
>Go through 12 certification courses dealing with various CS disciplines (visual studio programming, w3c compliant html, php, javascript, etc.)
>Start my own business. Veruh Successful.
>Fast forward to continuing education a decade later
>Walk into class and see that the professor is one of the guys I always did better than on assignments
>Gives me the "Oh Shit, not this guy." Look.
>Chill with him after class.
Come to find out, he went the degree path, packed full of liberal studies bullshit, never fully prepared to succeed outside of a corporate setting where he would be a code monkey or middle management at best.
Over lunches in the first week, I helped him redesign his curriculum to better prepare the kids for shit that happens when your department folds and you aren't carried over.
Put him in contact with a few of my business associates, and as soon as the semester was finished, he booked ass out of the shit college to return to what he loved doing.
that was me
Post a photo of yourself, maybe from the back.
Jow Forumsthathappened
>be EE
>[s]suck dick[/s]
>have 3 levels of lab courses
>every single one is super easy
>finish each project early despite having shit partners
>finish so early with good partners we can skip classes as we wait for others to catch up
>write the best lab reports
>my reports are used as the benchmark for the successive 2nd and 3rd level courses
>professors start to know me
>get personal recommendations to work with some on research projects
>get referrals to jobs
>greaduate dum laude basically 1 year ago today
>get a defense job on my own merits
>move out of my parents house
>have plenty of spare cash. still have many guaranteed promotions to come.
>tfw no gf to spend time with
life is bittersweet lads.
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Literally our Prob'n'Stat/Diff. Eq. professor. Talks so much weird shit, and then gives it on the exams. How do you like software verification on your midterm?
I did not like taking the introductory CS class (java) so I skipped almost every class. I accidentally showed up on the day of the midterm, got a A- not even knowing it was on that day.
Showed up only 3 times in total including the final exam, introductory course, and midterm.
Almost every non-liberal arts class/school fails you automatically if you miss a certain number of days. Nice try though
I came for lulz, not feels, you antisocial cunt.
maybe true for your jew school but not for me
And what nigger infested dump do you attend?
Bruh your shit prep school sounds like a Christian college
Well there was that one time the weird kid was arrested for possession of child pornography. I won a bet that day.
>true story
>first day of cs class
>sit in the back
>guy shows up and sits next to me
>he pulls out an x220
>boots up, its running winjews
>mfw
at my state university i showed up a grand total of 5 times to an entry CS class i took and passed with an A.
Why do you bother paying for that shit? Assuming you’re an American.
it was a requirement for my major (ME). the reason why i didn't show up is because it was at 5pm while my previous class ended at 2pm. i commuted so fuck waiting 3 hours for one class where all the instructor does is answer the student's retarded questions.
i just went to the lab and read C++ for dummies. the requires book was dogshit too so i didn't bother reading it.
Because he's bullshitting
that wasnt me but i did a similar thing with my x220. i needed W7 for a few specific programs for a few classes. i switched between W7 and xubuntu throughout the week.
since i finished college i never booted into W7
why would i be bullshitting? have you never taken an introductory class? it's not
Then you went to a shit school if you had that many people in your intro class
i explicitly said i went to a state school, are you retarded? state schools have a large student body and large enrollment in 100 level courses.
Then why are you bragging about passing a piss easy class from a shit tier school? Go to a real school and try pulling an A without attending class
i outright said in my first post that it was an introductory class, why would it not be easy? you legitimately seem retarded.
please do tell what amazing school you went to.
Respect
I'm in a supposedly high-tier university and I am getting 80-90% on about 2 days of reading the lecture slides per module. I tend to go to lectures but one module recently had useless professors so I skipped everything, read the slides at the end of the semester, and same result.
The main things I'm getting out of these degree are varied projects - in groups and teams, so not something I can do on my own - and some contacts in academia. And a piece of paper of course.
Are you done making yourself look like a turd? Because this is embarrassing now
leave
>Anyone have good CS class stories?
>"Yeah one time I had a class and it was super easy for me and I got an A and I barely tried xD"
No one gives a fuck you autists. The thread is about interesting stories.
exactly
wow ur old
what university did you go to shitbird?
Am I bragging about passing a fucking intro class like you? Please kill yourself
While I agree with what you're saying, intro to programming classes where all they do is walk you through basic Phyton or Java aren't hard at all unless you're inept with computers, which a lot of new college students tend to be.
you were bragging about not being in a shit tier school, so let's hear it.
No I'm laughing at you because you think passing an intro class in a shit school without attending is somehow impressive
post your school then gayboy.
Cry more faggot, your tears are delicious
What kind of horror college did you go to?
>be me
>be Australian, we call it uni
>3rd year of computer science degree
>already a well adjusted man because I started studying at 21 instead of 18 like most others, so I'm 24 at this point.
>have to do some elective classes
>they can just be anything because I didn't do any electives first or second year, just core units
>pick a first year game design subject because I think it'll be easy
>dear god no
>fresh out of highschool memelords everywhere
>not a single one of them knows how to dress themselves or shower
>they just yell out month old internet memes as joke answers to the lecturer's questions
Got another story, hold up
>one day I'm walking around the computers and I see this one guy
>kinda fat, long as fuck hair, looks like John Romero but not as handsome
>I ask what he's working on
>he goes off on this spiel about some procedural generation engine he's making
>It literally just loops spawning trees at random x/z coords in Unity 10 times
>I ask to see his code, curious as to what method he took
>he thinks he's hot shit and that I am want to be educating
>starts rattling off explaining something stupid and super basic, like how to make a reference to a public variable
>he's got multiple .cs files open, clicks off of the one I want to see
>I ask to see that one
>"we'll get to that"
>this arrogant asshole is trying to protect me from overloading my brain with too much information because he thinks so highly of what he's doing
>I just walk away and sit back in my seat without saying anything
What a fucking asshole that guy
>in networking class
>prof is older Iranian women
>gets pissed off at the Indians and rich Arabs
>thinks they are cheating, based on the whispering in exams I think they are
>makes them all sit at opposite sides of the room
>days later
>building with the labs in it goes offline
>DHCP not enabled
>one uni IT guy is in charge of fixing the entire building
>weeks go by
>class is like 3 months behind as nothing is set up in the labs yet
>day before final we cover 5 chapters in a 90min class
>D- curves to an A
holy fucking shit
also asians always cheat their fucking asses off, theres at least a 90% chance that person is cheating
You honestly believe this gay made up story?
> Data science elective, supposed to be a lot of R programming.
> Classroom is full of new macs. First day professor
> Instructs us to launch the windows XP VM, and to run
> R from there.
> Ask why we don't use R from osx instead. Professor
> slurs in super think Russian accent
> "No one uses R from Oh Ess Eecks I don't think they even make R for Apple products"
> Hey look, it's installed on these Macs already! And it
> Looks newer than the one in the windows VM
> "I said NO ONE USES R FROM OH ESS HECKS!" He yells
That was the best day of that class. Not from a comedic standpoint, he made an ass of himself repeatedly, but that screaming was the closest he got to teaching.
Class was a fucking waste of money.
>the school i went to is relatively small as is the CS program so you ended up taking classes with a lot of the same people
>one was this kid that i'm 85% sure had some kind of problem
>professor tended to tell stories somewhat frequently so he told us a story about how his son got his fiance shoes as an anniversary gift
>kid suddenly pipes up "WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT SHOES AS A GIFT? I'D RATHER HAVE SOMETHING I CAN GET A LITTLE MORE USE OUT OF"
>professor after a moment of silence says "... you don't date much, do you?"
>entire class laughs
Maybe not but asians definitely are huge cheaters for sure
>got this kiddo who makes android apps n' shiet
>"proidigy programmer kid" in my class
>already making maximum capital
>uses chrome-book aand android, consumes botnet like a bugchaser consumes cum
>one day, ask him to help me with some virtualization side-project i'm working on
>he doesn't even know what that is
Everyone consults him, i hate it. He is the incarnate web-app programmer prodigy child, i haven't got a chance to see his code yet but i bet its fucking awful.
I have webdevs so much...
Or he just wanted to explain things in his own way. You asked him about his project and then got pissed off when he tried to explain it to you. Who is the fucking asshole?
Not him but have you seriously never met anyone like that before? These dumbass people who think they're geniuses that are god's gift to CS despite the obvious fact that if they really were that smart or that good at it, why the fuck are they wasting their time in school? Fuck them
>once a week CS class where we do a 2 hour workshop with various web stuff
>class is guaranteed A if you attend every lecture
>final assignment handed to us 4 weeks before end of semester
>have to build our own website, can be about anything.
>we also have to present it
>final day, every is going up and presenting their website
>near end, fat dude who looks like Richard Stallman if he was 30 years younger comes up
>starts breaking down and crying about how he tries so hard to get it to work
>super awkward
>he brought up his website finally
>looks like he made it in 20 minutes from pure HTML
>everyone pity claps at end
>next student goes up and shows his website
>Asian dude with heavy accent
>brings up his website with a picture of a beach
>"I lova all dee bitches"
Maybe not a good one but I had a pajeet cs professor and it went like this.
>Online C# class
>All or nothing grading (all requirements or fail)
>Syllabus was a paragraph long
>Sent email with a dozen questions regarding the structure of the class and schedule
>4 days later, replied one sentence half answering a rhetorical question
>Students start dropping left and right week 2 because of the all-or-nothing grading and to get their refund
>Study and try real fucking hard to make sure everything is flawless
>6 weeks later
>Only 10-15 students left including me
>Every single assignment has at least one error where we know he doesnt mean what he said but we do it anyway and get credit.
>With a full 100% so far, I test the waters and purposely skip a step
>Still got 100%
>A
More than half the class dropped and the fucker doesnt even test the assignments. He has a 1.6/5 on ratemyprofessor. He had to exempt a few assignments when I and other students found it to be impossible or stupid (ex "Use a nested loop to iterate through x one demensional array"). He still """teaches""". I'm surprised there isnt anything about getting fired for having such a low retention/passing rate for students.
When you're a professor for long enough, its legally impossible to fire you.
>Be in high school
>All computers running XP/7 at best with a single shared user login on the domain for normies
>Randomly select a target for remote shutdown, which worked because it was authed as the same user
LMAO at the kids who are boasting that they didn't go to their INTRO classes and got A's. CS is like the few programs that you don't need to go to class for. Doesn't make you one bit smart