The biggest idiot you've ever talked to was...?

[adosorken]

I did a course in use of Microsoft Word and Excel

Isn't this more correct?:

I did a course in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel

Maybe your method ain't wrong, but it sound wrong when spoken

In the US, both ways of representation are correct, whether written or spoken. But then again, Americanese is an extremely lazy dialect.

Hands up here who honestly knows how do manage large Word documents effectively, how to use pagebreaks that keep certain paragraphs together or keep headings and chapters on the same page, how to make a proper bibliography, how to make safe spreadsheets with locking on formula cells, how to make cross-checking spreadsheets, etc.

*raises hand*

Most of MS Office can be learned through trial and error, or simply reading documentation. Most people give up at the first hardship through the former, and can't even conceive of doing the latter. "Documentation???! Isn't that like...a doctor's word?" (no BS here people...I've heard this more than once)

[oracle]

Yeah, I noticed that after I posted it. I left it there so that everyone can make fun of my grammar skills.

Sorry . I just had to bite at your bait

[TheBigBasicQ]

WTF bad spelling! it's a computer class!

Correct spelling and grammar are not enforced or taught well enough at schools IMHO. Communication skills are necessary in all aspects of life. If you write the worlds greatest computer program, but lack the skills to write comprehensible documentation for it, then nobody will want to use it. The internet age and the introduction of text message have made the problem much worse as millions of school students are using this kind of language in day to day use:

Dood! I got a B on my comp class coz my techer rekons I cant spelz rite! WTF? LOL!

What really bothers me is how they consider a class in MS Office to be a "computer class".

I did a course in use of Microsoft Word and Excel at the start of my computer science degree. It was actually one of the best courses I have ever taken, Word and Excel are both extremely powerful software packages and most people only know how to use small portion of those capabilities.

Hands up here who honestly knows how do manage large Word documents effectively, how to use pagebreaks that keep certain paragraphs together or keep headings and chapters on the same page, how to make a proper bibliography, how to make safe spreadsheets with locking on formula cells, how to make cross-checking spreadsheets, etc.

Nobody can be expected to just know how a complex software package works. I have seen many an amazed face when I have shown someone that Internet Explorer has a drop down list of sites beside the back button, and that is one of the most commonly used pieces of software. Admitedly, many courses in Microsoft office aren't fantastic, but the skills (IMHO) are well worth learning.

+10 postcount for anyone who nitpicks my post for a spelling or grammar error after I said how important those two skills are. ;-)

Internet being a noun has a capital 'I'

Page breaks - supposed to be two words

Admittedly - two ts instead of one

Post count - again two separate words

Yey! I want +10 in my post count....lol =P.

[Atom Ant]

I know an idiot: The moron that thought the best way to get teenagers interested in Computer Programming was to give them access to a textbook that teaches them how to code business related programs.

The programming class I took last semester on QBASIC pretty much sucked. The only programs we ever coded were about business(e.g. Calculating interest gained in a bank account).

I went into the class already knowing the basics and then some. So, when I got bored of his endless PRINT lectures I would start programming something myself. He would always get pissed off and tell me to pay attention and use the same code he did. :barf: Bah!

*puts virus on teachers computer*

Muahahahaha!!!

[adosorken]

It's pretty sad when the students know more than the teacher does.

Which reminds me...Rhiannon and I went to the dean of our college to tell her about how badly our VB profesora sucks. We were in CIS200 (PC Hardware/Troubleshooting) class on Thursday, and almost everyone in that class also takes CIS103 (VB) and hasn't learned a damn thing because the profesora has absolutely no experience in teaching and probably never took courses in uni for it. No one's learning a thing and everyone hates the course because it's a waste of time and money. It's a $360 course, and that's expensive for college here, especially when you can go to the UPR (the top university in the Carribean is the UPR in Mayaguez) and take the same type of course for $90 and actually learn VB.

[Atom Ant]

:lol: He probably knew more then I did, he just wasn't very creative or interesting.

[whitetiger0990]

It's pretty sad when the students know more than the teacher does.

not always. if the teacher is nice and confesses it (I was in CAD and did something in 10 minutes that took him 2 hours) he gives out seom extra credit =)

[Rokkuman]

Heh, not that I'm calling the prof a moron, but I once went to a college class with my dad (I wasn't really registered to it, I just went with him one day), and didn't learn anything... literally. Everything he taught, I knew of. The next day, and brought a disk with a game I had made on it, and it blew him away. If only I could get paid to stand up and teach the class myself...

[1000101]

Anyone who has ever argued with me on a topic which I know about. Especially those who blame the wrong people for situations beyond thier control. *cough*TheBigBasicQ*cough*