Cambridge's Computing Syllabus

Though I don't condem flaming, Pangsai's doing it pretty early for a group blog that has less than 50 posts. You see, this pretty much desty our motto of

UNIVERSITY IN DIVERSITY

Evidence like:

"PS. Rais! Where's your pride as a computing student? Do something to show all the shit we learnt in class!"

Period. OMG. Computing's not for everyone. Infact, if I may change what I said, Cambridge's Computing is not for anyone. I mean, for goodness sake. Who the fk wants to learn how to do low level programming like C++ when there's higher programming language like SQL? Instead of moving on with life, we have to learn our roots --- quite literally. Start from scatch and things like that. Look at the syllabus, people. Look. The basic codes are already there, like how 1000 is eight in denary. Like how I should access a file and save another bloody file. Oh Guan Yin Ma! Is it really that hard to take what we have for granted and move on with something more advance, like editing an OS. Isn't it more practical to have hands on experience in something we might will have use in the real world? Who needs you to learn logical take-it-or-leave-it things like algorithms for a water fountain urinating in Botanical Gardens? Who needs you to memorise how a link-list works? Of course, you don't go around re-programming from scratch a library booking system and say a .... a ....cash register system.

It's there already!! A perfect system millions of people use! If I'm the system anaylst for the NLB, and some dickhead tells me:

OI! GET ME A BETTER BOOKING SYSTEM. NOW ONE AH! KEEP ON SPITTING PAPER AT THE CUSTOMER'S FACE!

Knnccb. Don't put paper inside lorh! So easy solution to a seemingly impossible situation. Don't like? Then I shutdown your server, give the hardware a good scolding for spitting paper at people --- in front of you --- then reinstall the current software lorh! cb bosses really should kiss their own backsides for giving impossible problems to solve. Simple! Now I can spit on the boss's official company photo.

So that's why we always take everything we learn in school with not just a pinch of salt --- we need bucketfull of salts. There was one time we quipped: The syllabus is more appropriately named as

Cambridge's Computng Syllabus

rather than

Cambridge Computing Syllabus

Really. I don't blame anybody if computing students really come out more blur to the computing world than when they started as students to learn how to design a game, create an antivirus software dah dah dah. Only the crazy people will say they'll be using anything from the stuff they 'learnt' to apply to real life.

OK. I went one big round to soot Pang. In another words, Pang is crazy. :)