-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 February 2002 10:59 am, Bruce Miller wrote:
While I am talking about A'levels and the way they are taught at school, I want to take the opportunity to praise up Chris Howells. I would never have guessed that he was still doing A'levels. My sympathy goes out to you, Chris. You must be well above the rest of your class or you have an exceptional teacher.
Hrm, well, in what subject? ;) I've never done IT (apart from those silly introductory courses they do in lower school -- everything I know is self-taught), my subjects are physics, maths, and chemistry :) The main reason I decided not to do IT (my school only offers GNVQ, not A-Level) was mainly that I felt it would be a waste of my time :( OK, so I'll be the first to admit that that means my C++ is fairly crap (I've only been writing 5 weeks -- Qt usually does such a nice job of hiding the scary bits -- the only scary bit so far was a dynamic_cast :) ), and I've no idea how a compiler or something works, but I'm not entirely convinced that something like that would be covered at GNVQ/A-Level anyway. Some of the GNVQ course does make me laugh -- like having to learn how to install software. Sticking a CD into the drive, watching it autorun and clicking "Next" a few times. What an absolute waste of time (IMVHO). - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8XYu8F8Iu1zN5WiwRAinfAJ49Tf9DujOaOrlAl7zzQfWhz4G7zwCcCLWL 2RMd0ip2nvuX0V2CQqUjIyg= =LPxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----