> Be me > Programming student 3.8 overall GPA > Breeze through hardest courses like Object Oriented Java, Android, Web Dev with either A or A+ while other plebs are getting Bs and Cs > About to fail Cobol > Professor calls himself Captain Cobol > 60s something old timer, giant dickhead > Makes the course even more impossible by being a hardass about the smallest errors > Bragging in front of class about how Java is inferior to Cobol > Never answer student's questions, look down on them because they can't write fucking Cobol > Gives everyone 20/100 for assignments
And seriously why the fuck are people still using Cobol? There's little to no documentation or examples on the internet, extremely hard to understand or troubleshoot except only by reading the course's slides (which is a fucking cesspool). A line of code has to be preceeded by an exact number of spaces to work, retarded bugs galore, and the IDE is an absolute piece of trash. Why in the fuck does this shit language still exist in 2018?
Inb4 there's still a lot of legacy code to maintain so the language still exist. Of course I know that, I'm just ranting.
>hardest courses >Object Oriented Java, Android, Web Dev
Christian Morales
Why do you care about the language? Programming is a set of skills independent of the language involved. If you're blaming the language for your inability to write a program, then you're a retard. It's like a mathematician crying that he couldn't solve the problem because he didn't like the brand of pencil he was forced to use.
Hunter Jackson
what a shit college teaching language directly instead of teaching the concepts and students are free to do assignment in appropriate language of their own choice
Christopher Hill
>Language is just a tool You sound like a generic senile who takes pride in his superpower Pascal mastery. Try the language yourself before you speak faggot
Brayden Baker
That's as good as it gets for a 2-year college program. You can't believe how some college plebs are struggling with a dead simple Observer/Observable project.
Luke Nguyen
>>>>>>>>>>>> years l-o-l fucking pleb
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Samuel Gray
Stop being butthurt you can't just copy and paste from stack overflow
Jack Fisher
honestly, cobol is fine, it's really not that hard at all, it's just a lot different than modern languages. It sucks that your teacher is captain douche about it, but I can appreciate the old schoolness that is cobol. mainframes are pretty cool actually if you think about it.
Ian Allen
Exactly what I was thinking. I took a class similar to that in 10th grade high school.
