I started teaching myself programming and I fucking love it.. So I decided well I might aswell take a course at university so that I have a really strong foundation to build on myself. It's such bullshit. They keep taking points off my assignment and giving me comments like "recursion hasn't been covered in class yet". SO fucking what? Now they want me to write an exam and write my code out by hand? Is that even possible? Are there ever any 'real world' scenarios where you would ever need to do that?
Maybe I'm being pissed off for nothing, but srsly I find it so unnatural.. I mean when I type my code it's not line by line.. I always insert things above existing lines and ofcourse all the lines below will move down, so I'm just don't know how I will be able to write the way I do by hand.
Another question:
I really like doing mathematical programming problems like the ones on project euler. Is programming in the industry anything like that? If I enjoy finding prime numbers would I probably enjoy the stuff that you guys do?