[772] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: classes at the 'tute
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Mar 5 01:48:32 1989
>So, all you want to be able to do is "write good C code".
No, I want to write good code. Not necessarily C code, that's
ridiculous. I *do* think I have the ability to learn a new language,
or several new languages.
>What happens when the C language becomes obsolete?
Oh, I don't know, we seem to be doing well so far :-)
>Jon, if you take the attitude that you won't learn anything from
>6.003, you will take two times to pass it (if you pass it at all), and
>you won't learn anything from it.
I don't think I will learn anything from 6.003 for several reasons
which I think are good:
1. People tell me (and I can figure it out pretty easily for myself
from reading the description in the catalog) that 6.003 is an
extension of 6.002. I did very badly in 6.002 despite the fact
that I tried very hard and wanted to learn the stuff. I doubt I
will do much better in 6.003, especially since one 6.003 professor
this term was heard to say "I'm sorry" to those students who took
6.002 last term.
2. People tell me what 6.003 was like. I see opus taking 6.003. I am
going to lose in 6.003.
