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**soccerPMN** · 03-14-2006, 06:31 PM

At my school, all there is is just a VB class for half a year, and a Java class for a full year, that they say is for college credit. Yeldarb was telling me that he took a C++ course at his school. What kind of classes can you take?

**Soulphalanx** · 03-14-2006, 06:34 PM

Java, but the computer courses at my school suck, so its self study for me

**soccerPMN** · 03-14-2006, 06:35 PM

Yea me too. By the time I have time in my schedule to take the Java class, I'm gonna be programming much much more advanced things. I'm already into network programming

**Moonchild** · 03-14-2006, 06:38 PM

Right now? Nothing. But we will study Java (ugh... I hate it).

**SimplyTheBest** · 03-14-2006, 06:41 PM

I'm in middle school, but I signed up for all the programming classes because I plan to be a programmer later in my lifetime...

**Bronx** · 03-14-2006, 06:43 PM

c++, html, A+, perl and a couple others i have never heard of...my school has about 800 kids in it so it is reallt small!!!boring lol

**TeamOverload** · 03-14-2006, 06:48 PM

like none

**elevationsnow** · 03-14-2006, 06:50 PM

programming:
Web page design (basic html if that counts)
Advanced Web page design(looks into using dreamweaver and php)
VB .Net (what a dumb language lol)
AP Comp Sci (Java pretty extreme course good teacher though)

**Spirit** · 03-14-2006, 06:52 PM

VB and Java.
I'm gonna take VB, but that'll probably take me nowhere. It would probably be best to self-teach myself a language like C++, but I just don't know where to start.

**soccerPMN** · 03-14-2006, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSPunk

I'm in middle school, but I signed up for all the programming classes because I plan to be a programmer later in my lifetime...

And what exactly are the programming classes? That's the point of this thread. C++? Java? C? Perl? HTML? etc...

**mannymix03** · 03-14-2006, 06:58 PM

C/C++, Ajax, Networking, Java, php, general computer tech,

**MikePiP** · 03-14-2006, 07:11 PM

Im taking Basic now... Junior and Senior year I will take C/C++

**Vanden** · 03-14-2006, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeamOverload

like none

same but we do get noob html classes and that about it but someone told me that if you wana take a tech pro and your school does not have it you can go take it at a collage and your school would have to play for it but you do have to get a ride there

**Vanden** · 03-14-2006, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mannymix03

C/C++, Ajax, Networking, Java, php, general computer tech,

wow your school teaches Ajax i need to lrean that so badly even tho i have no use for it

i could be like i know Ajax and soap

and people will look at you like your crazy and wonder wtf

**SG57** · 03-14-2006, 07:17 PM

Mine only has programming in Visual Studios.net envirorment, Im not sure if i should take it, Chingwyn said its easy as a walkthrough. (to make a button you only dolike 2 things).

I might just not take it, but i need an elective credit and a Tech credit, so Ill just breeze through it. =>

**TheEmulatorGuy** · 03-14-2006, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by homer

Java (ugh... I hate it).

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.

All we have is HTML - I aced it - the teacher looked up to me, he asked me for help. It was ridiculous. Just to extend the stupid project, I added JavaScript, CSS and PHP to my page, but I had to remove it... grr.

**Soulphalanx** · 03-14-2006, 07:18 PM

classes at my high school are so easy(JAVA), that i did my entire Language Arts speech during that hour

**fchaos** · 03-14-2006, 09:19 PM

At my highschool, Java and HTML classes are offered but they teach you absolutely nothing. Well, nothing you couldn't have learned from reading a tutorial or two from the Internet. I'm taking a Java programming class this year, and all I've learned to do is draw shapes onto windows (it has been about 3/4 of the school year already, pretty sad). Plus the teacher doesn't know what she's doing half the time. I usually have to help her get her programs to work and I end up helping other students with their programs. Just recently we started doing HTML programming since we have to do applets and crap. The teacher doesn't know much about that either and I amazed her with some simple Javascript (alerts o.-; ). I've started to see the class as a free period with a computer. I usually finish my homework there or take games (mostly roms), plug in some headphones, and enjoy the period. =P

**Yeldarb** · 03-14-2006, 09:45 PM

Yeah here we have C++ as an intro programming class (2 semesters, Comp Sci I and Comp Sci II) -> I enjoyed the class even though I already knew how to program in other languages.

And then we have AP Comp Sci which is in Java. And I agree with everyone above, Java sucks.

**cowsruledaworld** · 03-14-2006, 10:14 PM

we supposedly have technology classes at my school, but they are taught by women who run the technology at our school, and our servers are down every single day. They dont know anything about computers, or technology. And i am not a sexist.. so no offence, but they start argueing with eachother and.. wierd0 women

**SG57** · 03-14-2006, 11:17 PM

Thats funny, my library teacher cauhgt me looking at our schools source code for the home page, she must have thought i was doing something (...possibly making it say im sexy ? hehe ;->), then my 'intro to computers / keyboard technology' class last year was pretty stupid, typing programs adn PowerPoint on macs... ugh, but i found a way to enjoy my self...

I modded this NanoSaur game so i was a giant teradatcle, and instead of dropping rocks, they were these nuke type things that are in the game, all possible via a Hex Editor... and http s://proxify[dot]com the annonymous proxy site to get by BESS and download Hex Editor... I also coded some simple HTML pages and such while i was bored, just opened up AppleWorks and coded it, saved it as .html and viewed, pretty simple.

Oh and i was forced to be on a MAC, the teacher only had MACs, they suck in my opinon

**jsharrad** · 03-15-2006, 12:10 AM

Hmm, when I was in high school the only programming we were able to learn was the 3 weeks we spent doing qbasic.

**PopcOrn DeVil** · 03-15-2006, 01:05 AM

Mine isn't a dev class but it's gfx and guess what... they use paint hahahahahaha! And my teachers don't know ****! HAHAHAHAHA.

It's gay.

codemonkey · 03-15-2006, 06:25 AM

I'm impressed with how young most of you are and the opportunity that most of you are given in school. It might date me a little, but the first exposure that I had to programming was writing GOTO's on a Commodore 64 and the only computer experience I got in school was typing on a Apple IIe.

Languages like html aside, I don't think it's so important what you're learning. Java and C++ have some glaring differences, but the transition between the two is incredibly easy because most of the concepts are compatible. If you know about polymorphism and encapsulation, the syntax is easy to pick up. If you understand the concept of a Singleton, putting one together in both Java and C++ is trivial. These obviously aren't the only concepts that you need to learn, they're just some examples and I'm not saying that syntax isn't important. You need to understand it to see examples of the concepts. But, speaking from experience, learning concepts will best serve you in the future.

Again, kudos to the people trying to learn these concepts in a pre-college environment. You're further along than I was.

Hardrive · 03-15-2006, 06:32 AM

just vb, and its half year, and my school has 1500 kids!!!

**Bronx** · 03-15-2006, 06:37 AM

does anyone know where to get c++/c tutorials?? i want to learn know but i am in 8th grade and my c++ class isnt until 10th grade. does any1 have any suggestions?

**Garak** · 03-15-2006, 07:45 AM

What about "Fraction Munchers",

Every grade school kid from the day had to have had a "computer" class where all you did was sit around and play Fraction Munchers? How else are kinds going to learn the true potential of a PC?

Garak

**SG57** · 03-15-2006, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bronxbomber92

does anyone know where to get c++/c tutorials?? i want to learn know but i am in 8th grade and my c++ class isnt until 10th grade. does any1 have any suggestions?

hmmm....

Why not learn on your own via tutorials by Yeldarb? (Brad) I too am in 8th grade, just sent high shool registration to the school. I have COmputer Programming as 1st course, but its on Visual Studios.net so its gonna be WAY to easy, I might just tell the teacher i know C / C++ well enough to not have to listen to them....

**Bronx** · 03-15-2006, 08:13 AM

ill look at those tutorials. will they be hard for me to comprehend since i know none wats so ever about programming?

**jsharrad** · 03-15-2006, 08:21 AM

http://www.cprogramming.com/ is a good place to start it has tutorials that will teach you the basics of both c and c++

03-14-2006, 06:31 PM	#1
soccerPMN Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4,288 Trader Feedback: 0	High School Devs: What Kind of Classes Are Available to you? At my school, all there is is just a VB class for half a year, and a Java class for a full year, that they say is for college credit. Yeldarb was telling me that he took a C++ course at his school. What kind of classes can you take?

03-14-2006, 06:34 PM	#2
Soulphalanx Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: TROY Posts: 2,989 Trader Feedback: 0	Java, but the computer courses at my school suck, so its self study for me __________________ [IMG]http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3852/untitled1copy7rf.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9711/newavatarjb9.gif[/IMG] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=9733][COLOR=DarkRed]Operation Positive Posting[/COLOR][/URL] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=49762][COLOR=Red]Guide to All Guides[/COLOR][/URL] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=13798][COLOR=Blue]Posting Guidelines[/COLOR][/URL] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=4394][COLOR=Green]Piracy Policy[/COLOR][/URL] [SIZE="3"][URL=http://forums.qj.net/f-general-psp-help-22/t-guide-opening-psp-disassembly-assembly-video-104303.html][COLOR=Red][B][U]PSP Disassembly Assembly Video Tutorial[/U][/B][/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE]

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03-14-2006, 06:41 PM	#5
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03-14-2006, 06:43 PM	#6
Bronx sceKernelExitGame(); Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New York Posts: 3,125 Trader Feedback: 0	c++, html, A+, perl and a couple others i have never heard of...my school has about 800 kids in it so it is reallt small!!!boring lol __________________ ~Bronx Development~ ~Widget Monkey Games~

03-14-2006, 06:35 PM	#3
soccerPMN Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4,288 Trader Feedback: 0	Yea me too. By the time I have time in my schedule to take the Java class, I'm gonna be programming much much more advanced things. I'm already into network programming

03-14-2006, 06:48 PM	#7
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03-14-2006, 06:50 PM	#8
elevationsnow OMGZ0R this guy is 1337 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minnesota, MN (originally england) Posts: 218 Trader Feedback: 0	programming: Web page design (basic html if that counts) Advanced Web page design(looks into using dreamweaver and php) VB .Net (what a dumb language lol) AP Comp Sci (Java pretty extreme course good teacher though) __________________ [IMG]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4208/sigcopy0lu.jpg[/IMG]

03-14-2006, 06:52 PM	#9
Spirit noob Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 220 Trader Feedback: 0	VB and Java. I'm gonna take VB, but that'll probably take me nowhere. It would probably be best to self-teach myself a language like C++, but I just don't know where to start.

03-14-2006, 07:11 PM	#12
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03-14-2006, 07:17 PM	#15
SG57 ...in a dream... Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 4,957 Trader Feedback: 0	Mine only has programming in Visual Studios.net envirorment, Im not sure if i should take it, Chingwyn said its easy as a walkthrough. (to make a button you only dolike 2 things). I might just not take it, but i need an elective credit and a Tech credit, so Ill just breeze through it. => __________________ ...you'll never know what it's like... spending your whole life in a dream... Launch a Kitten out of a Cannon and win real cash! Checkout my newly updated site for all my projects (Kitten Cannon, BOXHEAD, Light Cycle 3D)

03-14-2006, 07:18 PM	#17
Soulphalanx Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: TROY Posts: 2,989 Trader Feedback: 0	classes at my high school are so easy(JAVA), that i did my entire Language Arts speech during that hour __________________ [IMG]http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3852/untitled1copy7rf.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9711/newavatarjb9.gif[/IMG] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=9733][COLOR=DarkRed]Operation Positive Posting[/COLOR][/URL] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=49762][COLOR=Red]Guide to All Guides[/COLOR][/URL] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=13798][COLOR=Blue]Posting Guidelines[/COLOR][/URL] [URL=http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=4394][COLOR=Green]Piracy Policy[/COLOR][/URL] [SIZE="3"][URL=http://forums.qj.net/f-general-psp-help-22/t-guide-opening-psp-disassembly-assembly-video-104303.html][COLOR=Red][B][U]PSP Disassembly Assembly Video Tutorial[/U][/B][/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE]

03-14-2006, 09:19 PM	#18
fchaos Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 146 Trader Feedback: 0	At my highschool, Java and HTML classes are offered but they teach you absolutely nothing. Well, nothing you couldn't have learned from reading a tutorial or two from the Internet. I'm taking a Java programming class this year, and all I've learned to do is draw shapes onto windows (it has been about 3/4 of the school year already, pretty sad). Plus the teacher doesn't know what she's doing half the time. I usually have to help her get her programs to work and I end up helping other students with their programs. Just recently we started doing HTML programming since we have to do applets and crap. The teacher doesn't know much about that either and I amazed her with some simple Javascript (alerts o.-; ). I've started to see the class as a free period with a computer. I usually finish my homework there or take games (mostly roms), plug in some headphones, and enjoy the period. =P __________________ [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/fchaos/koolaidsig.jpg[/IMG]

03-14-2006, 09:45 PM	#19
Yeldarb Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 984 Trader Feedback: 0	Yeah here we have C++ as an intro programming class (2 semesters, Comp Sci I and Comp Sci II) -> I enjoyed the class even though I already knew how to program in other languages. And then we have AP Comp Sci which is in Java. And I agree with everyone above, Java sucks. __________________ [url=http://www.barbdwyer.com/footer.php][img]http://www.barbdwyer.com/8Ball.jpg[/img][/url] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=1] [b]PSP Developer Resource Site:[/b] [url=http://www.psp-programming.com]PSP-Programming.com[/url] [b]Other:[/b] [url=http://wake-boarding.org]Wakeboarding[/url], [url=http://water-skiing.org]Waterskiing[/url], [url=http://wake-surfing.org]Wake Surfing[/url], [url=http://www.guitarhero-4.com]Guitar Hero IV[/url][/SIZE][/FONT]

03-14-2006, 10:14 PM	#20
cowsruledaworld Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the sink Posts: 489 Trader Feedback: 0	we supposedly have technology classes at my school, but they are taught by women who run the technology at our school, and our servers are down every single day. They dont know anything about computers, or technology. And i am not a sexist.. so no offence, but they start argueing with eachother and.. wierd0 women

03-14-2006, 11:17 PM	#21
SG57 ...in a dream... Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 4,957 Trader Feedback: 0	Thats funny, my library teacher cauhgt me looking at our schools source code for the home page, she must have thought i was doing something (...possibly making it say im sexy ? hehe ;->), then my 'intro to computers / keyboard technology' class last year was pretty stupid, typing programs adn PowerPoint on macs... ugh, but i found a way to enjoy my self... I modded this NanoSaur game so i was a giant teradatcle, and instead of dropping rocks, they were these nuke type things that are in the game, all possible via a Hex Editor... and http s://proxify[dot]com the annonymous proxy site to get by BESS and download Hex Editor... I also coded some simple HTML pages and such while i was bored, just opened up AppleWorks and coded it, saved it as .html and viewed, pretty simple. Oh and i was forced to be on a MAC, the teacher only had MACs, they suck in my opinon __________________ ...you'll never know what it's like... spending your whole life in a dream... Launch a Kitten out of a Cannon and win real cash! Checkout my newly updated site for all my projects (Kitten Cannon, BOXHEAD, Light Cycle 3D)

03-15-2006, 12:10 AM	#22
jsharrad Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Justin Location: Dubuque Just Played: .. Posts: 414 Trader Feedback: 0	Hmm, when I was in high school the only programming we were able to learn was the 3 weeks we spent doing qbasic.

03-15-2006, 01:05 AM	#23
PopcOrn DeVil Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Western Australia Posts: 1,044 Trader Feedback: 0	Mine isn't a dev class but it's gfx and guess what... they use paint hahahahahaha! And my teachers don't know ****! HAHAHAHAHA. It's gay.

03-15-2006, 06:25 AM	#24
codemonkey Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 12 Trader Feedback: 0	I'm impressed with how young most of you are and the opportunity that most of you are given in school. It might date me a little, but the first exposure that I had to programming was writing GOTO's on a Commodore 64 and the only computer experience I got in school was typing on a Apple IIe. Languages like html aside, I don't think it's so important what you're learning. Java and C++ have some glaring differences, but the transition between the two is incredibly easy because most of the concepts are compatible. If you know about polymorphism and encapsulation, the syntax is easy to pick up. If you understand the concept of a Singleton, putting one together in both Java and C++ is trivial. These obviously aren't the only concepts that you need to learn, they're just some examples and I'm not saying that syntax isn't important. You need to understand it to see examples of the concepts. But, speaking from experience, learning concepts will best serve you in the future. Again, kudos to the people trying to learn these concepts in a pre-college environment. You're further along than I was.

03-15-2006, 06:32 AM	#25
Hardrive No longer a community member. Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 22 Trader Feedback: 0	just vb, and its half year, and my school has 1500 kids!!!

03-15-2006, 06:37 AM	#26
Bronx sceKernelExitGame(); Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New York Posts: 3,125 Trader Feedback: 0	does anyone know where to get c++/c tutorials?? i want to learn know but i am in 8th grade and my c++ class isnt until 10th grade. does any1 have any suggestions? __________________ ~Bronx Development~ ~Widget Monkey Games~

03-15-2006, 07:45 AM	#27
Garak Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 139 Trader Feedback: 0	What about "Fraction Munchers", Every grade school kid from the day had to have had a "computer" class where all you did was sit around and play Fraction Munchers? How else are kinds going to learn the true potential of a PC? Garak

03-15-2006, 08:13 AM	#29
Bronx sceKernelExitGame(); Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New York Posts: 3,125 Trader Feedback: 0	ill look at those tutorials. will they be hard for me to comprehend since i know none wats so ever about programming? __________________ ~Bronx Development~ ~Widget Monkey Games~

03-15-2006, 08:21 AM	#30
jsharrad Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Justin Location: Dubuque Just Played: .. Posts: 414 Trader Feedback: 0	http://www.cprogramming.com/ is a good place to start it has tutorials that will teach you the basics of both c and c++

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