From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,e1e578817780dac2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/08/27 Message-ID: <3222E85B.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176760557 references: <4u7hi6$s2b@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> <4uo74j$95p@ns.broadvision.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.programmer x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey C. Dege wrote: > > On 13 Aug 1996 10:44:56 -0700, Darin Johnson wrote: > >Too many people fall asleep in algorithms class > >(then bitch about the waste of time later). > > It's odd how little things can bring back memories. > > Sitting there at nine o'clock at night, because I couldn't fit the > day class into my schedule, listening to Sartaj Sahni drone: > > And in step 27, we set temp.prev.next to temp.next. > > Has _anyone_ had an instructer who brought any excitement to this stuff, > or is it inherently impossible to teach without becoming dull and tedious? > My graduate Algorithms instructor at UCF was pretty interesting. He even made sure to point out the relationship between the FindIth algorithm, tennis matches, and Alice in Wonderland. Of course, I've had some of my fellow students violently disagree with me on this. But I think they were reacting to the course's heavy math content. -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |