IT teacher giving us this homework, dummies guide to PC

I used to use my I.T lesson to mess around and play games in, then I did two years worth of backed up coursework in two evenings and got a decent grade.

The course was a joke and the teachers never had a clue :p

College is better, you should look forward to it. :)
 
I know nothing about IT at all just nothing, computers just went over my head
thanks to here I know my way around hardware and have discovered that everyone I know who is "good with computers" knows nothing about hardware
We are now opposites
 
The IT teachers in my school no next to nothing about the insides of a computer and most of the times don't know how to get the projector to work, i'm not surprised you were asked for a graphics card and a video card.
 
acme15 said:
I used to use my I.T lesson to mess around and play games in, then I did two years worth of backed up coursework in two evenings and got a decent grade.

The course was a joke and the teachers never had a clue :p

College is better, you should look forward to it. :)
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this is how i did my GCSE and AS coursework :)
 
Make said:
Hell, someone remembers!

Voodoo 2 yeaaaaaaaah,
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Of course.
I was in my 20s when 3D accelerators first appeared on the market in 1996. My first was an Imagination Power VR. Terrible card that was soon replaced by a 3dfx Voodoo. It's interesting to see how Imagination has taken the Power VR to mobile and is doing great things. Nearly every smartphone out there has a Power VR SGX chip in it.
I then upgraded to a Voodoo 2 and then added another for SLI.

My first combined 2D/3D card was an nVidia TNT2 Ultra.

Back on topic though. It's my experience that IT teachers rarely know anything about computing beyond the theoretical. And even then, it's usually out of date by several years if not decades.
 
Much can be said about education - the fact they teach you what you need to know to pass their syllabus and exam, rather than about the subject itself!

It's only when you get into College/Uni that things are applicable (thankfully).

I didn't have a chance of doing 'IT' when in high school as the teacher had left (the year before) and it wasn't considered important enough a subject. The new IT guy started (a year after I'd had to make my GCSE choices) and I had to teach him how to use the computer system - I'd had to fix it for 12+ months to be able to print the coursework I was doing for my other subjects. (Novell fileserver with 3 print servers, this was 1995/6!).

Careers 'Advisor' told me that as I was from a farming family, that's what I should be doing and persuaded me to take an NVQ in Business Studies. I got a lucky break that my tutor was ill and I decided to leave before the end of the course, second lucky break was getting a job in 'IT Support' when I had no qualifications (well ok, a CoE in CLAIT) in computing... Roll on 16 years and I've worked in IT Support (Desktop, Servers, Networking, Hardware) for 90% of my adult life! Great Advice! :rolleyes:
 
Feel free to blame the exam system, even in Scotland where we have no set syllabus teachers have to teach stuff they know is out of date and wrong because it will be asked in the exam. Even the head of the computing dept at a school i helped in wasn't allowed to open a faulty pc and change the fan, he had to wait months for the specialist IT guy to come and do it, to say the teachers were irritated is an understatement.
 
During school the head IT teacher asked me into an A-level class to tell everyone a bit about website design. All because a couple of years before a different IT teacher saw me using HTML and didn't know what I was doing.


IT in schools is a complete waste of time. I didn't bother even taking it as a GCSE and now work in it as a profession.
 
The whole of secondary school can be a waste of time; everything you really need to know is learned in primary school, how to read, write and count.
 
Judgeneo said:
IT in schools is a complete waste of time. I didn't bother even taking it as a GCSE and now work in it as a profession.
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It wasn't even an option for me when I was at school. The computers were only for use by the special needs kids.
The first time I even saw a PC was when I went to university.

This is in the early 90s so not that long ago.

[edit]I just re-read what I posted and realised that the early 90s was 20 years ago.........Christ I feel old[/edit]
 
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