People You Met in Programming Class

Everyone who has ever taken a high school programming class is bound to have met some interesting people. Tell us about them.

I knew a guy who was absolutely terrible at programming. Whenever the teacher gave us one of her ENTERPRISE JAVA assignments to do, he couldn't do it on his own. Printing and variable management he could handle, but algorithms as simple as converting seconds to hours/minutes/seconds were beyond the scope of his abilities.

Then one day, I was messing around on his calculator and found a bunch of TI-BASIC programs. It turns out, the guy was pretty good with that abomination of a language. He had at least 14 different programs on there, way more complicated than anything he'd done on our computers. I guess that just goes to show how trying to start kids off with an object-oriented language cripples them, and even as limited an imperative language as TI-BASIC can get them to actually understand how to make computers work for them. From that day on, I had a new-found respect for him. Sure, he might have never become an EXPERT PROGRAMMER, but he could have done so much more, if it weren't for our flawed education system. If only they had started him off with C instead of Java (and motherfucking Alice before that), he might be making Pac-Man clones to amuse himself now.

I must add in, though, that all of his programs consisted of nothing but interesting and creative ways to draw dicks on the screen and call the operator a faggot.

>>6

Yeah, he wasn't a great programmer. That's the point. The competent programmers in the class either jumped ship from Java to better languages or were programming in other languages years before they'd taken the class. The guy was hardly even interested in computers, I'm just saying that he might have had a better experience with it if the people in charge of the programming courses for the district weren't ENTERPRISE dipshits.

>>7

Sadly, all I remember about the program was it did. Keep in mind that I took this class 5 years ago, and I never copied the source or anything.

Basically, think about the snake. Every time it eats a dot, it gains a new segment. In normal snake, it's just a square. In dicksnake, however, it would add on pieces to the dick. The front piece was the head, the end piece was a pair of balls, and the middle pieces were two lines. Each piece would rotate, and there were "corner" pieces as well, which helped maintain the impression of a seamlessly expanding floppy dick. I might hack together a mockup of what it looked like when I have some time to spare, if you're interested.