My school (and I'm pretty sure a lot of other schools) teach Pascal in their computer science classes. I don't know if anyone actually likes that language, but I've read some pascal code and almost threw up (might of just been bad coding, but it just didn't look right). AP (Advanced Placement - College courses, if you didn't know) Comp. Sci. teaches C/C++. I know a little C, enough to read and edit some, but not really enough to do actually programming. I'd really prefer to take AP, and I think I'm qualified enough with my past in computers.I talked to the Comp. Sci. teacher and he said I gotta show him some program I've done to get in his class. I really have no problem with that because it makes sense, but I don't know what he wants to see. I mean, I dunno if he wants to see some really basic stuff that can just output some dinky math or something, or if he wants to see some text editor or something (a friend in Comp Sci IV told me for his final project he made something like a cross of vi and pico for DOS.)
Also, the few things I've done are mostly in PHP/Perl, or for Linux. The PHP/Perl I can show him on my webpage, but I'm pretty sure they only have Windows stuff at school.
And... I probably won't do this, but do you think it would be ethically wrong if I took some GPL'ed programs, edited them together, and just said in the source code who actually made it (comments deep, deep in the code so it'd be harder for him to see it)? I'll probably just use that PHP weblog I was talking about in the thread or this calculator I've been working on, but I might not be able to work out the kinks in them before the registration forms have to be turned in.
So yeah... anyone who can help please do. I'd really like to be able to actually get in the class. If not, I'm pretty sure I'm getting in Network Admin. but I think that's a Novell certification and not Cisco ... (I got a little love for Cisco cuz my friend's dad works there and he's getting a job there)
edit - I'm stupid.
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This message has been edited by Spydir Web on March 27, 2001 at 03:41 PM