Two ways to torture a comp teacher

[fishern3485@cobra.uni.edu]

Just recalling the good 'ol days of highschool and thought you might get
a kick out of some Apple antics I pulled junior year...

The (bubble-headed blond) computer teacher refused to let me take her
BASIC programming class. (something about knowing too much.  hrmf.)
So I kept close tabs on her curriculum by talking with lots of her
students.

It seems they were given a project to write a BASIC program that would
draw a lo-res picture.  Most of these people were having a hard time
with this, being their first exposure to programming.  AHA!  A challenge!

After a few hours I had concocted a BASIC program that was a fairly-good
lo-res editor. (flood fill, too!)  The other program was also done --
it took the binary image of the lo-res screen and *wrote* the basic
program to draw it on the screen.  For simplicity it used only PLOTs
and HLINs.

Lets just say that more than half the class used it.

She was NOT a happy camper.

Having completed that project in record time, she had to make another
assignment.  Same assignment, but the program had to use VLINs.

You can guess what I did.  Now 3/4 of the class turned in projects
that used only VLINs.......


god that was fun.


-- 
Nathan Fisher
  FISHERN3485@COBRA.UNI.EDU