More retarded BS from my IT teacher... is he correct?

paradigm · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:52

fini said:
create in excel what really should be in SQL.

Fixed and brought from the 90's into the present.

Web apps are where it's at now, no-one in their right minds is going to need someone qualified to create an app in access.

asim18 said:
Oh, and another example...

He said hard disks don't make any noise AT ALL, and are completely SILENT while reading/writing. He said if your HDD makes noise it means its broken.

He managed to convince the other kids in the class, but his BS will never pollute my brain.

Tell him he is a grade A tool. Motors aren't silent for starters.

asim18 · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:52

fini said:
Are you sure he didn't say 'take for example a cab firm who want to keep a database of the costs of each journey' - i.e. it was just a theoretical (though rubbish) example to get you to create in excel what really should be in Access.

No, he was talking to me 1-to-1 at his desk, and not to the whole class. He was very clear and was not using it as an example for creating a database in excel.

fini · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:54

paradigm said:
Fixed and brought from the 90's into the present.

Perhaps, but I've never heard of a school teaching SQL.

paradigm · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:54

fini said:
Perhaps, but I've never heard of a school teaching SQL.

And this is the problem with the education system and IT.

They teach people to be useless. \o/

Gilly · 16 Oct 2008 at 20:59

paradigm said:
And this is the problem with the education system and IT.

They teach people to be useless. \o/

^5

CliffyBiro · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:01

Taxis in my area charge pre-defined prices.

£6.50 from my house into anywhere in the town centre.

Artest · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:03

I want the hard drive he's using.

asim18 · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:05

olegs said:
I want the hard drive he's using.

Yep, me too, if there was no risk of me getting kicked out of college, i would have started a big, big, keyboard warrior argument.

craptakular · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:07

asim18 said:
Oh, and another example...

He said hard disks don't make any noise AT ALL, and are completely SILENT while reading/writing. He said if your HDD makes noise it means its broken.

He managed to convince the other kids in the class, but his BS will never pollute my brain.

is he an old 60 year old man?

asim18 · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:08

Oxy said:
is he an old 60 year old man?

Nope, I'd say he's in his mid 30's

Azagoth · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:12

How much do your parents pay to send you off to this private boarding school?

grudas · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:13

my IT teacher chats loads of BS.... :/ i kinda get annoyed but i can't say a **** once i did he was sayin' ill call the security to remove your from college xDD

asim18 · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:14

Azagoth said:
How much do your parents pay to send you off to this private boarding school?

Actually, I get paid £30 a week to attend it

paradigm · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:15

asim18 said:
Actually, I get paid £30 a week to attend it

You get what you pay for

Pilky01 · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:15

asim18 said:
Actually, I get paid £30 a week to attend it

EMA?

asim18 · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:16

qwerty321 said:
EMA?

Yep

Energize · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:17

The database he is describing would be impossible to make with current technology, not only would it be too large, but it would take forever to come up with all the address combinations.

fini said:
Perhaps, but I've never heard of a school teaching SQL.

My school did, taught oracle courses instead of A levels. Though Computing is not supposed to be a vocational qualifcation so of course A levels and GCSE's won't be teaching what the industry uses. The same way science qualifications don't.

Monkeynut · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:26

You should have heard my GCSE teacher!!

"Right so we click on this and... Oh wait no that didn't work, let's try something else"

This happened almost every lesson!

da_mic_1530 · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:28

doesn't get any better I'm afraid, I currently have a someone teaching me Marketing at uni who confesses to us all he doesn't have a clue about marketing, and I'm paying for this service

....mind you I do go to Leeds Met

scorza · 16 Oct 2008 at 21:31

fini said:
Are you sure he didn't say 'take for example a cab firm who want to keep a database of the costs of each journey' - i.e. it was just a theoretical (though rubbish) example to get you to create in excel what really should be in Access.

If he ever gets to be a manager of something, then spreadsheets will be far more useful than a database. Some of ours are horrendously complicated.