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Why the hell would any one be teaching FORTRAN in the 21st century? Christ.

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Haha. As at 2015 I had to write and pass a Fortran exam for my CMP 222 course.
Was meant to teach modularity and some sorting techniques.
Needless to say i didnā€™t learn sorting techniques from that class.

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FORTRAN that was a course in the 1st semester of my 2nd year in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

Had a B in that course and I am still pained.

I and a couple of friends went to focus on Visual Basic and MATLAB back then. We could not suffer abeg.

And am fairly certain they still teach it till date and they would have the mind to compare us with them students in the abroad.

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When a Professor doesnt have email nko? Like we had to even teach some of them Gmail Product for Schools.

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Short answer: You can only teach what you know.

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I bet these lecturers canā€™t even write a simple HTML code.

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Thatā€™s true brother @shegsade

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One of our lecturers used to shade his colleagues, heā€™d say ā€œThose who know, do. Those who donā€™t, teachā€. Scary shit.

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Good old days! At a time it was pay as you go, N100 would go a long wayā€¦ Now? 5gb canā€™t even last 2 weeks. What the hell has happened? :grinning:

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Bros I hail thee. You have mind. MATLAB nearly crashed my course mateā€™s laptop during project defence. And you ran it on mobile. You got courage fam.

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They still do.

Iā€™m learning FORTRAN here in UNIBEN. Computer Science. 200Level. First Semester.

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lmaooooooooooo See baba right now just focus on mastering at least 3 languages and begin working on internships as free lance so u hv strong portfolio wen u graduate.

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I just graduated from a top private university and we still wrote mid-semester and exams on paper apparently lectures have bionic eyes with built in compilers

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This is just wrong. The only thing you should be writing on paper is pseudo code or maybe class diagrams.

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Up till now, I still code on my phone (not as often though), in fact I practically completed most of the current HNG remote internship tasks on my phone. I remember participating in one Stuternā€™s internship tasks on my phone, when my PC got stolen.

Itā€™s not easy, but when you get used to it, it could become pretty handy.

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Hell, my school still teaches QBasic and Pascal at 300L, then FORTRAN at 400L. Computer Engineering though.

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Yup. Thatā€™s cool. I also did the initial HNG tasks (last yearā€™s internship) on my phone, cause my PC screen was broken. I knew I couldnā€™t continue that way, though, so I had to get money to fix it.

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I too just graduated from a Federal University and all codes must be written in paper.

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Not trying to say that the Nigerian University approach is good or that I recommend it, but Google will test your coding ability using a whiteboard or in notepad - almost paper.

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Paper coding is not meant for novices, people who donā€™t know what a programā€™s output looks like. Paper/whiteboard coding is suitable for when you have experience, and you are being tested for how deep your understanding of that tool is, or how robust your problem-solving approach is.