On February 14 2011 18:12 amd098 wrote:this was high school in 2001/2002, US
we had the most kickass C++ teacher ever, he was super chill
only thing he hated, was software piracy, and gaming on the school lan, and he knew we all did both
his C++ lectures were extremely boring and people would play quake over lan
we had a great an hilarious guy called Saul (name changed)
Saul would do the most random things in class, he sat next to me as it was assigned seating
he was not stupid, he was actually very smart but just wanted to have fun
in the days of dialup, a t3 line of high school was amazing, and lan gaming was the win
One day Saul brings in his speakers one day to class
in the middle of a very though provoking lecture on function calls, the class is silent and Saul randomly decides to turn his speakers from silent to MAX, and blares us with the great music of quake and people getting fragged
another time, the teacher asks a question no one knows the answer to
Saul gets up and says 'mr wheaties (name changed) I love you'
mr wheaties responds with 'Saul, your love is misdirected.'
Saul ends up loosing his computer access after being caught playing too many games and sits at the printer
Saul amuses himself by making paper airplanes and throwing them across the room
mr wheaties gets annoyed and sends Saul next door, to the remedial math class
Saul protests "but mr wheaties, they are doing FRACTION!" and mr wheaties says 'ok Saul, you can stay, no one deserves that"
a semester later... Saul is no longer in our class sadly

but the antics continue
we are supposed to get a lecture about case structure or something, instead of using if/then statements (i dunno that stuff, im a molecular biologist)
mr wheaties starts, its the last class of the day and a boring lecture to boot
my friend ajax (name also changed) says 'hey mr wheaties, what did you do in the navy'
lecture changes into him in the navy and intercepting ships
bell rings and he realizes he got suckered, he goes 'oh shit. well played ajax, well played' as we all leave school for the day
mr wheaties is giving a very boring lecture and i brought my gameboy advance to school, and played castlevania
i was so into the game i had no idea the class was silent and mr wheaties is right behind me watching me play castlevania
he says 'bill, what are you doing'
shocked, i said 'playing gameboy'
he replies 'i wasnt aware its part of this course'
i have no response and he goes away and goes on with the lecture and leaves me to play gba
another lecture goes on and he's going on and on and on about who knows what
he looks around and sees NO one paying attention to him
im playin gba, others are playing games on the net, or quake on the lan, or checkin their email
mr wheaties goes 'NOW IM PISSED!' and kicks a chair across the room which breaks a leg
we all stop and stare at him
Danny (name changed) goes and stands up and says 'mr wheaties, would you like a hug'
whole class bursts out laughing and so does mr wheaties
another time all of a sudden the class changed from disorganized assignments to new worksheets with intelligent program designs such as doing the fibonacci sequence an that
we were all stumped, my bro ajax however googles it, and finds that mr wheaties has been stealing this stuff from a university
the university however also posted the FULL solutions and source code, so we would just change the names of the variables and hand it in
a few weeks later we get an assignment and nearly the whole class finishes it within 10 minutes of him giving it to us
mr wheaties isnt stupid, he knows something is up
my friend ajax owns up and says 'mr wheaties, we all know you were plagiarizing the university of [i dont recall]'
mr wheaties responds, 'well ajax... you're right, i cant do anything to you all for taking their work when i was doing the same'
last story of the class
we had to make a program for a marine biology case study, and it was semester long group work
mr wheaties made the groups, the smart kids got 1 group, the average ones in the other, and the duds (like danny, ajax and me) in the other
my friend ajax however goes and googles our case study... and finds the teachers manual.
he sends it to the laser printer, and mr wheaties walks right up to the printer as he sees 200 pages spitting out.
ajax poops his pants and mr wheaties flips thru the papers and looks and say 'well looks like someones getting their worth of the $3 computer lab fee' and walks off, not even looking at what was printed!
so now we have an advantage. the teachers manual tells us what to explain along with the solution, it was GG as the groups were in competition
mr wheaties asks a question about the first section of the case study, and no one wants to answer it cuz its damn hard
so we send danny up with the teachers manual in hand, danny being the joker of the class
everyone things its going to be something stupid, but danny gets up and explains the code and situation PERFECTLY
whole class is shocked as danny sits down. we began a rivalry with the smart group and thanks to our advantage, we never got anything wrong
which was honestly hilarious as we would play the average students in quake on lan while we were supposed to do group work
mr wheaties had no idea, but man was one hell of a teacher, not that i learned a thing of c++ or programming, but how to be a man