Stanford University is publishing video and assignments for their iPhone programming course online. I've been following it and doing the assignments, and man... I miss compsci classes. I've been having so much fun doing this. For those that recall me in college, I was a lazy underachiever in most of my classes- but not the programming ones. In
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My favorite "exceeding" story is from my "Intro to OOP" class. The first assignment was to use the provided windowing/drawing library and OOP techniques to draw a few shapes on the screen. I decided to go over the top and made a full featured drawing application. We presented them in class, and I got dirty looks for being an overachieving nerd, but even the teacher seemed a little pissed at me.
I didn't know why, but as it turned out, that was the day she announced our final project. To make a drawing application.
Oops. It was a group project, and that was probably the one moment in college where I was incredibly popular.
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