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[Noor]

Today, our professor handed out a page that links to one of the articles posted here in devmaster. I actually felt proud and little surprised.
I was wondering if any of the members here had a similar story, maybe directly or indirectly, please share your stories!
:yes:

[SpreeTree]

Be interesting to know which article it was?

Spree

[Noor]

it was about zbuffering

http://www.devmaster...les/zbuffering/

[Methulah]

Nice going Devmaster. Big playrs in the game development arena. :)

[TheNut]

"I was wondering if any of the members here had a similar story"
- I'd be surprised if any of my professors actually knew about computers or the Internet in general =)

[SpreeTree]

TheNut said:

- I'd be surprised if any of my professors actually knew about computers or the Internet in general =)

I remeber talking to my graphics lecturer about how I was using DirectX over OpenGL in my project. He stopped me and asked "Whats this DirectX?"...

I should have never gone back!

Spree

[roxtar]

SpreeTree said:

I remeber talking to my graphics lecturer about how I was using DirectX over OpenGL in my project. He stopped me and asked "Whats this DirectX?"...

Yep, been there. Just in my case it was more like: "Can you actually program using OpenGL on a regular PC?".

[Reedbeta]

LOL, that's awful. I remember talking to one of my computer science professors and I happened to mention boost...he had never heard of it, either.

[haxorphreak]

My computer science teacher once asked me what "==" meant. :D
And she says she has certifications...

[Mihail121]

Reedbeta said:

LOL, that's awful. I remember talking to one of my computer science professors and I happened to mention boost...he had never heard of it, either.

Wait, all of you, what kind of "computer science" is this actually...

[Luminion]

haxorphreak said:

My computer science teacher once asked me what "==" meant. :D
And she says she has certifications...

Wow, that is sad.

[zavie]

Pretty different from a C++ teacher who once asked at an exam something like "Write a program generating more than 1000 lines of compilation error with G++ in less than 1000 bytes of code." as a bonus question... ;-)

[darqSHADOW]

Man, what colleges are you all going to? Every single one of my CS teachers was very knowledgable, and I double checked the courses and background of the university before I ever applied, to make sure I was getting the best possible education in CS possible.

DS

[haxorphreak]

My CS teacher (high school) was very intelligent, was the first CS teacher at my school, and was on her 23rd year. But there was this position she was applying for in two years which came up about two months ago so she had to leave.
Now we're stuck with some dink who just copies the lessons from the book.

[roel]

that is fun, zavie :)

[roxtar]

zavie: So did anyone actually end up completing that task?

[DrunkenCoder]

roxtar said:

zavie: So did anyone actually end up completing that task?

Just bork some parameters to STL and you'll have a pretty novel in your lap :) At least in 3.x GCC's haven't tinkred much with 4.

[edit]: Recursive templates can also be used to similar effect.

[Goz]

nkharrat said:

it was about zbuffering

http://www.devmaster...les/zbuffering/

Did anybody point out the wrong bit on the second sentence? :lol:

He invented the A-Buffer in '79 ... the Z-Buffer was in '74 as part of his paper entitled "A subdivision algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces"

</Geek> ;)

[zavie]

Oh I guess some students did. :-)

In fact the exact task was to "write a c++ source under 64 bytes, generating over 100000 bytes of compilation error". (include prohibited)

He later gave a solution based on templates:

template<class a>struct b:b<a*const>{};

main()

{

  b<int>c;

}

[Johnny]

SpreeTree said:

I remeber talking to my graphics lecturer about how I was using DirectX over OpenGL in my project. He stopped me and asked "Whats this DirectX?"...

I should have never gone back!

Spree

That's not so surprising. Plenty of people who work in the field of computer graphics go their whole careers without even touching DirectX. Direct3D's usefulness only applies to a small set of graphics problems (games and real time rendering on Windows systems). You don't need to know about DirectX to be a computer graphics professor.

haxorphreak said:

My computer science teacher once asked me what "==" meant.
And she says she has certifications...

Now that is incompetent! Not knowing about some random API for some specific problem domain you probably don't even deal with is one thing, not knowing the language you're teaching to students is another. The more I hear about computer science coursework the happier I am that I decided to major in something else...