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Exp. that made you feel like a dev badass?
Week 65 Group Rant
franga2000
7y

On my third high school CS lesson. I had corrected the teacher about 6 times and wouldn't shut up about Linux.
He walked to my station, saw that I was live booting off my phone with SSH sessions to 2 servers I was managing.
He instantly gave me an A for the entire semester and told me I can do whatever I want, as long as I shut up.

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writing word docs is not cs!!!
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  • 3
    7y
    Nice...
  • 23
    7y
    Isn't it good to have someone correct the teacher when he says something wrong? He should have you teach the class!
  • 11
    7y
    @Olverine he did, several times 😁. It was awesome and some of my classmates actually learned something relevant for a change.
  • 5
    7y
    @franga2000 it's also a good way for you to progress and he gets paid doing nothing. So it's a win win!
  • 1
    7y
    I had a classmate in school who was really good. He then became my teacher and it was great.
  • 10
    7y
    Mother Fucker... you know how hard I had to work to dumb myself down for tutors over the years!?

    Now I read two stories like "they saw I was clever and didn't worry me".

    Learning to explain myself clearly and simply was definitely worth doing though, it's a life skill you won't get any other way.
  • 4
    7y
    @jamescodesthing if it makes you feel any better, it didn't last long. That professor only taught us for 2 years, then I was back to writing CLI tax calculators because my A-Star image pathfinder was too advanced, even though it satisfied all the requirements.
  • 0
    7y
    Wait, did he insult Linux?
  • 1
    7y
    @simo002m no, he was just talking about Windows as if it were the only OS in existence (also MS Office).
    He also said something along the lines of: "before GUIs - like Windows, computers used CLIs - like Linux) and when he finally showed examples of other OSs, he used some insanely old KDE (pre-KDE3) screenshot as an example for Limux GUIs.
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