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it was nearly 3 months back...
i planned to code an os..
my system prog proffesor [he is not considered a prof.]
he asked students to do a small system prog project...

i had no time to do any proj so i decided to show him my kernel.. i had only done till IDT not even IRQ's...
the os just displayed text and handled errors..
after seeing the os..
he said tat need only 10 lines of code. and did not even see my code..

and gave good marks for stdents who did calander and address bok tat too not havin a GUI for system prog project !

prave wrote:it was nearly 3 months back...
i planned to code an os..
my system prog proffesor [he is not considered a prof.]
he asked students to do a small system prog project...

i had no time to do any proj so i decided to show him my kernel.. i had only done till IDT not even IRQ's...
the os just displayed text and handled errors..
after seeing the os..
he said tat need only 10 lines of code. and did not even see my code..

and gave good marks for stdents who did calander and address bok tat too not havin a GUI for system prog project !

That's must be really annoying...
He gave you bad marks..., without obviously knowing anything about the subject...
Did you tell him that you had an IDT setup?
Jules

Is he a system programming instructor? He sounds like he does not know almost anything about that subject--and should not be teaching it.

Man I'd be sooooo pissed.

Did you get angry at him?

-JL

I would print the whole source code and show it to him. If it wouldn't help, I would talk to the principal and if even that wouldn't help, I would create hoaxes and discredit for him.

suthers wrote:Did you tell him that you had an IDT setup?

ya.. but he did not know wat was it..

neon wrote:is he a system programming instructor? He sounds like he does not know almost anything about that subject--and should not be teaching it.

ya.. tat ****** does not know anything.. but he teaches.. sorry reads the book in class !!!

piranha wrote:Man I'd be sooooo pissed.Did you get angry at him?

ya.. but if i show my angryness to him.. he will fail me..

he thought i used a if-else statement to display the error message when there comes a error.. and printf for printing !!!!

I would totally go over everything he says with a fine toothed comb and 'correct' him in front of his class, but hey, that's just me.

Alboin wrote:I would totally go over everything he says with a fine toothed comb and 'correct' him in front of his class, but hey, that's just me.

My ICT teacher at school's greatest pride is his HTML ability, let's just say that after I showed him my OS, I was dispensed of ICT classes for the rest of my time at school....
(At least he recognized how hard it was....)
Jules

Alboin wrote:I would totally go over everything he says with a fine toothed comb and 'correct' him in front of his class, but hey, that's just me.

yes. You are a hero...
But this is the real life. You can't do this, otherwise the prof could fail you. (I've experience on this)

EDIT: But, hey prave this isn't a so bad moment... It's only a bad mark... Marks aren't life. There are many things worse than bad marks.

Jeko wrote:

Alboin wrote:I would totally go over everything he says with a fine toothed comb and 'correct' him in front of his class, but hey, that's just me.

yes. You are a hero...
But this is the real life. You can't do this, otherwise the prof could fail you. (I've experience on this)

ya.. u r correct jeko...

but tat prof thinks adress book written in c... jus using structures is the best sys program//

I would correct the instructor and explain to them what the current problem is, and why he is wrong. If the instructor refuses to lesson or understand, then... well... You can always take it to a level above him.

for the things he does in class and the way he teaches...

we will thrash him after our graduation..

waiting for tat day..

Don't worry, I know how you feel Everyone at my school thought thought some guy was going to be billionaire just because he knew Visual Basic

If you take up a programming course after you finish school at university/college (and assuming it's not doing some weekend Javascript course) you'll find everyone there A LOT smarter.. Well, certain people. There were a few guys in my class who didn't pay attention in the first trimester when we learnt functions (we covered intro to c++, even though I've already knew it) .. One of those guys surprisingly (but barely) lasted an entire year!

MessiahAndrw wrote:Don't worry, I know how you feel Everyone at my school thought thought some guy was going to be billionaire just because he knew Visual Basic

If you take up a programming course after you finish school at university/college (and assuming it's not doing some weekend Javascript course) you'll find everyone there A LOT smarter.. Well, certain people. There were a few guys in my class who didn't pay attention in the first trimester when we learnt functions (we covered intro to c++, even though I've already knew it) .. One of those guys surprisingly (but barely) lasted an entire year!

How rich did they think you where going to be then?
Jules

That does suck, but at the very least I would print the source and show it to him as proof that it wasn't indeed 10 lines of if-else statements. If he thinks you're still bluffing, demonstrate how it works.

Of course, a single project like this probably won't make or break you in this class, but it does hurt to get a bad grade for no reason. I assume that the OS kernel was an acceptable thing to turn in, right? Not much use arguing if it wasn't valid in the first place.

If it does come down to causing you to end up with a poor grade in the class for the semester, or other difficulties arise from it and the professor continues to be stubbornly unreasonable about it, then it is possible to take the issue to his boss. That may not get you too much further, but I'd imagine that the department chair or the like would be interested in knowing that one of the professors assigned to teach a course was both seriously unknowledgable about the subject and unreasonably unwilling to accept perfectly valid work because they didn't know how it worked.

Of course, do try to be civil about it and start by showing him the source code. It won't help to go crazy and start throwing tantrums at him, as you said it can adversely affect your grade even though it shouldn't. Only if he refuses to accept that the OS kernel was sufficient for the project and written by you should you turn it over to the higher authorities.