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Ranting Swede: Assessment related rants
Apr. 22nd, 2007 06:03 pmYou know what I really hate? At the moment, many many things. But for now I'll confine myself to these:
1) Arts essays. What I really really hate about Arts essays is that it's not enough to have your own opinion. It's not even enough to have you own opinion and have read a bunch of other texts that back you up or disagree with you. No, you have to not only waste hours of your life painstakingly referencing every text you read that may have contributed a single thought to your opinion, but you're expected to quote extensively from them to prove that you've read them.
2) Bugs in code that aren't immediately obvious. If I make a mistake in my code, I expect there to be flaws in my output. Heck, I can even deal with the program coming to a grinding halt. What I HATE dealing with are mistakes which almost work. It confuses the hell out of me to be seeing output that works BUT also outputs a whole lot of other stuff which shouldn't be there. Horribly flawed output is much easier to deal with because it tends to give you a much better idea of what it is you're doing wrong. but slightly flawed output? Maybe you forgot to increment something somewhere. Or maybe you're trying to reference a string when you should be referencing an array. Or maybe you have your comparators the wrong way around. It varies from language to language. But boy does it piss me off.
3) Coincidentally getting sick just as you're about to enter a heavy assessment period, aka WEEK OF HELL. I think this is the strongest evidence yet for the non-existence of God. I mean, who would do that?
1) Arts essays. What I really really hate about Arts essays is that it's not enough to have your own opinion. It's not even enough to have you own opinion and have read a bunch of other texts that back you up or disagree with you. No, you have to not only waste hours of your life painstakingly referencing every text you read that may have contributed a single thought to your opinion, but you're expected to quote extensively from them to prove that you've read them.
2) Bugs in code that aren't immediately obvious. If I make a mistake in my code, I expect there to be flaws in my output. Heck, I can even deal with the program coming to a grinding halt. What I HATE dealing with are mistakes which almost work. It confuses the hell out of me to be seeing output that works BUT also outputs a whole lot of other stuff which shouldn't be there. Horribly flawed output is much easier to deal with because it tends to give you a much better idea of what it is you're doing wrong. but slightly flawed output? Maybe you forgot to increment something somewhere. Or maybe you're trying to reference a string when you should be referencing an array. Or maybe you have your comparators the wrong way around. It varies from language to language. But boy does it piss me off.
3) Coincidentally getting sick just as you're about to enter a heavy assessment period, aka WEEK OF HELL. I think this is the strongest evidence yet for the non-existence of God. I mean, who would do that?
