Survey posted 2003-06-29 21:49 by Henrik.

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Okay, high school. But I'm also a DEUG owner. Now would that qualify as Associate's Degree? Hmpf.

I think the next survey should be "Did you lie about your eduction?"

I certainly did, I'm way past elementary school.

I think a better question would be

"WHY would you lie about your education by putting something lower than what you're in?"

CHEMOAUTOTROPH-- You into biology.. from your sn I was just wondering...

I took biology 3 years ago, and as I remember, a chemoautotroph is a single celled organism that feeds on inorganic matter- I thought it fit me as a computer programmer :)

>I thought it fit me as a computer programmer :)

In that case, do you live near a deep-sea volcanic vent? (j/k)

Pinball is pretty cool. It looks like it needs some more work though- not in the line of features, but just some graphic improvements, like a scrolling table intead of jumping between scenes.

Reply to the wrong news or what?

I think some of the posting got messed up on the internal side.

Or maybe you just clicked the wrong one... or you clicked on the right one, and nothing happened, and so you tried to click on another. Then, you replied, without looking at the post you were replying to. That happened to me a couple times, so that's my best guess.

I just finished Intermediate school, and I'm going to high school next year (I cant wait, they give Programming Courses for C++ and Visual Basic)

Your lucky that your high school has computer programming...at my high school the most complicated computer course involved making webpages with Frontpage!

Anyway, I am off to college now (Berkeley) so I will get my fill of computer programming there.

my high school doesn't offer any programming courses either :( the highest computer courses that we have are cisco networking classes which i am in. i should have my ccna by the end of this next school year :D

My HS offers both, plus Java (but they canceled it). Talk to your principal. If you can find enough people who want it, they might add it. You'd probably need a teacher, though, and that won't be easy. Well, it could be like my class where we pretend we're working and surf the net.

My school giving C++ and Visual Basic (I forgot Java and HTML in the last post) is great and all, but I'm in the band as well, so I wont be able to take any one of them till I'm in 10th grade (when it doesnt conflict with band.) So, I got stuck with making pages with Front Page this year (Informational Processing.)

Haha... I have friends who are in the band who want to take another class, but can't because of the band... they almost killed me when I said to drop band.

Thats what I want to do to the bad teacher. He said band wouldnt interfere with any of my other courses. He was probably talking about gym, that it wouldnt interfere with the subject that I hate most. Band interferes with at least every good course in 9th grade. So if you wanna take a good course in 9th, you gotta wait till 10th grade to take it.

Gym shouldn't even be a course, in my opinion. It kept me from getting straight A's this marking period. That kinda ticked me off. What's more, 5% of your grade in gym is skill. There is nothing academic about gym.

Furthermore, we never learned anything over the course of the year. It was just "Okay, do this, do that." Then, three days before the final, they give us this packet of information to study from. We'd NEVER seen this information before, and they're expecting to learn it in THREE DAYS for the final. I thought that was a load of crap, so I just cheated on the final. Oops, I got a 100%! How did that happen? LOL You can't take gym seriously.

The night before my business exam this year I looked at the work for the first time. I read the first 14 chapter summaries down the pub and then got bored with it.
I passed the exam...?

You must be good. Or luckier than w00t!

I passed by 1%

Wow... cheating is always the way to go in gym. But it doesn't really matter, you passed anyway.

I don't need to cheet in gym because my school doesn't offer it. I love eletest privet schools. :)

Eletest???
'Elitest'. It just shows that paying for private school education is a waste of time. That wasn't the only error in the last post but it was by far the most ironic.
And an elitest school show offer more than just a slim selection of stuff.
All very well not doing any PT but going through life as a couch potato isn't clever or healthy, no matter how good you are at school.

I think being home schooled would be the most beneficial to your education. That way, you could work right on the level of the person in different areas.

Like, I could be in a higher math level and a lower science level (just because I hate it).

At the private school that I went to, I couldn't go ahead in math because the school was so small (about 12 kids per grade on average), and so there weren't enough teachers to spend their time going ahead... that's why mostly everything I learned in math was on my own, not in school. (Thank you, TI)

But, you're right, "eletest privet schools" in some ways (as you said, the tutition(?)), aren't better than the public schools.

BTW there is a sort of on going comp between me and my mates. As all bar one of us loathe business we are somewhat proad of getting as close to the exact pass rate as possible. We just have to do better in the other subjects to pick our marks up

When I had Gym in Highschool we spent an entire month learning First Aide and cpr, and we watched some hilarious instructional videos. They even had a couple fake dumies to practice cpr on. And some fake babies. Babies are different you had to hold them face down and push on thier backs if I remember correctly.

In college gym is much different most likely you have to take classes devoted to a sport. If you want to be really lazy you can take a class in walking or bowling. I took jogging and tennis. A friend got to take karate.

Walking sounds easy enough. In our gym class in 9th grade, sometimes, if we didn't want to play a certain sport (American football... blah), then we could walk for the whole period. It was really boring, unless you had somebody to talk to while you did it.

I just hope the gym teachers in the high school will let you walk for the whole one and a half hour period. I know a few people that would rather do that that I could talk to while doing it myself. Well, either they let walking, or we have kickball tournaments all year long. I was one of the best kickers in my 8th grade team.

I give the finger to gym class

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I agree. We should all raise up our arms and give the finger to gym class. *flips off gym*

I think you should all raise your arms and do some exercise. Quit whining about it and get fit I say. You aren't going to get far being unfit.

I am fit. And, somehow, I manage to get a good amount of exercise (soccer season, especially). I just don't like gym class. I'm not good at American Football and Baseball, and they seem to be the major gym class sports, here. Plus, 5% of my grade is skill. So, if my grade was out of 50 points, that means I get a 90%, which keeps me off the distinguished honor roll, and that's precisely what happened, last marking period. I even worked extra-hard in Biology to pull off an A (instead of a 92%... GRR), and then gym got in the way.

I give the finger to gym.

Dang that's a long class period. Here(small city school district)it's only 45 mins.

Well, all of the classes are 1.5 hours long. But, I only have 4 daily, those and lunch, so it isnt really that bad.

Our class periods on a normal day are about 40-45 minutes, and on block-schedule days, they can go around 1.5 hours. I hated Thursdays--block schedules for Biology, Gym, History, and Study Hall. How boring can it get? I hate all of those classes.

I share your thoughts on American Football...blargh!
The thing I loved most about gym was baseball! I beat Penguins and Sqrxz so many times during those games.

I know... I don't know why I'd want to play a sport where a bunch of sweaty men in skin-tight pants dive all over each other to get an irregularly-shaped "ball." That doesn't make any sense to me. But of course, I don't weight nearly enough to survive that anyway. I'd be crushed. Aren't most nerds underweight? I am... I guess I've correlated the two things in my mind somehow.

I'm 6 foot, 135 pounds...too skinny and I'm always hungry.

LOL, me too! (About the being hungry part)

And our height and weight are almost exactly proportional (I'm just smaller... and younger).

OMG, this is wierd. I'm the same (125 lbs, 6 ft, always hungry and always on a computer programing or caluclator playing some game)

LOL, this is kinda funny, we're all within the same weight/height range. :)

Maybe you can lose weight by typing a lot...

type type type type type type type type type type type type type type type...

Eh, I'm not 6 ft. 5ft 6inches about. I weigh about 115 pounds, and I'm also always hungry.

Haha, I think I have seen those EXACT same videos.

Everyone has...they are the only ones that exist.

LAN academy? I'm in that next year.

Visual Basic is for looosers. Why go to a class for it? You can learn the whole language through one crappy textbook, and the language is close to useless unless you plan on working at Microsoft (it is Bill Gates favorite language).

I dont think I am going to take the visual basic course. If they had a Dark Basic Course (if only they did), I'd take it, even though I'm pretty good at it already. But I'm definetly going to take the C++ course and maybe Java. But I gotta wait till 10th to take it. :(

A friend of mine at school keeps talking about this "Dark Basic" that allows you to make and use 3D graphics without any thinking. I was playing with 3D graphics a little in QB, and after rotating an object for a long time, it always gets distorted. Maybe I should read that 3D tutorial on here again.

Can it really do 3D stuff without you having to know anything about 3D programming?

Yep Dark Basic can do that. Here's a sample program:
:Make Object Sphere 1,10
:R=1
:Do
:YRotate Object 1,R
:R=R+5
:If R=361 then R=1
:Loop
That Program right there rotates a sphere in empty 3D space forever! And at a minimum of 30 FPS too.

It's a lot like Visual Basic, which TI83+ Basic is like, so I got into it right away. If you want to buy it or get the demo version, go to www.darkbasic.com. If you want to go see my current Dark Basic Project, click on the link above.

well 30 FPS on my machine (I have the worst video card ever, only 2 MB in it)

OMG... lol, that's certainly easier than what I was trying to do. My QB code to rotate a cube is about 100 lines long (because I've never tried to use 3D graphics before... and I have a lot of comments), which is pretty sad. That's seven lines.

Oh yeah, and I might have said this before, but my cube keeps on getting "squished" (you'd have to see it to know what I mean). I'm assuming this is because of the number accuracy with the sin/cos stuff. I can see why it would eventually get off... but how can I avoid this? Is it in the 3D tutorial? I like my cube spinning QB program :)

I'm not sure what your problem is nor have I entirely gone through though the tutorials on here, but I would recomend makeing you own internal three demensional grid (in C arrays of arrays) and then displaying them appropriately.

I'm not sure what your problem is nor have I entirely gone through though the tutorials on here, but I would recomend makeing you own internal three demensional grid (in C arrays of arrays) and then displaying the nesscesary points appropriately. Of course this is far from the best idea, but whatever you do don't overwrite the original 3D coordinates.

Oh... that could have something to do with it-- every time I rotated the cube, I overwrote the original coordinates... so slowly, it was getting less and less accurate, so it became less and less like a cube. That makes sense.

YES! Except-you don't need a textbook to learn it. You can just make logical guesses and be right.

>>> "You can learn the whole language through one crappy textbook..."

Considering I learned QB (and got good with it) in only about two weeks, I doubt it would take a lot longer for VB. I've heard it's just as easy.

Heh, you can learn Dark Basic without any text book. It comes with a few crappy tutorials, and a few examples. After looking at the code base for a little bit, you'll be programming 3D games in no time.

Wow... that's so cool. I need to check this out. Darkbasic.com, right?

Hey, while I'm at it... does anybody know where I can acquire some FREE non-trial software to make flash animations/videos/banners/etc.? You know, like that Macromedia Flash Kit or whatever it's called. Is there something like that around? I've been looking for a short time, now...

yep. www.darkbasic.com. if you wanna try the pro version (more and better 3D commands), try www.darkbasicpro.com. Its amazing what you can do with dark basic. People have already hacked into the dll's and made a few commands that allow windows windows (like file select, etc) and new audio modules (that little stall when the music loops is kinda annoying, so someone fixed it) and someone even made a dll that, when coupled with a c++ compiler, will let you program dark basic with C++, or is it C++ with dark basic. I dont know.

And by short time, I mean two or three days.