My Ap Computer Science teacher isn't teaching so I am pretty much completely lost What do you guys suggest I do?
2006-12-11 12:21:54 · 14 answers · asked by TurkishGamer13 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Programming is mostly self-teaching.
2006-12-11 13:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by 2feEThigh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should do both of the following:
1. Talk with your teacher outside of normal class hours. Before school, after, or during lunch. Learn as much as you can, then go ask for help. Try to ask specific questions: "How do I do X?" rather than broad requests: "I don't understand anything."
2. Identify the top three of for people in your class. The ones that seem to understand what is going on, and are doing the work. Get their help. Ask them to explain how to do something (don't have them do it for you - you won't learn that way). Often the best students are happy to explain how to do things - and they may be better at explaining than the teacher. Find someone with a helpful attitude.
Hopefully, once you learn a bit more you'll be doing OK, and be getting past that "completely lost" feeling.
(Very rarely, nobody in the class can do the work. If that is happening, you might want to drop the class and try again when there is a better teacher.)
Good luck!
2006-12-11 12:32:42 · answer #2 · answered by Bryan J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
drop it. i had a terrrrrrible computer teacher last year (my senior year) and i wished so much that i had thought to drop it. its one thing to get an a in a class, and its another to dread going to it cause the teacher doesnt teach it. i would sit in class and the teacher would be showing us things about a subject and then all of a sudden she would stop and be like, i dont know how to do this. i did, which would piss my teacher off, so not only did i know more than the teacher and dread going to the class, the teacher hated me and always got me into trouble. from a former senior in a stupid computer class, i say drop it. (that is, unless you need it for a technology credit)
2016-03-29 03:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forge ahead on your own. Find a toolset that's applicable to your coursework, and write something interesting. Are you writing websites? Make a WAP version of the site. Are you learning C#? See if you can make a cross-platform app and run it on your phone. Take the last project and make it exponentially more interesting. Then submit for extra credit, or write a paper and ask to present it to the class.
In 9th grade, my BASIC teacher had us write programs to write our name on the screen. As the other kids struggled with that, mine started with a blank screen, and it started to snow, and the snow formed letters that made my name. It blew everyone away.
Smart people ALWAYS find themselves in this situation. The classes move too slow, same in college, same in the real world (work). You need to go the extra mile to make things interesting and keep busy. That's the difference between "smart and bored" and "walks on water".
2006-12-11 12:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by thornsoft 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
START TO TEACH YOURSELF!!!
no lie...I took AP US history in HS and the teacher was a total boob, almost everyone failed the exam ( me included) so they changed policy and the teacher almost got fired.
I really wished I had taken initiative and taught myself. Get a book on AP Comp.SCI and start to tutor yourself.
DON YOU HOMEWORK!! EVERY NIGHT
this is one of those classes you cant afford to lose because of a crappy teacher. READ THE BOOK AND TAKE NOTES ON IT. like in a special section of your notebook or binder.
try not to let your grades in the class slip below a B.
the 4 weeks before the actual exam is the time to really start to pull it together.
2006-12-11 12:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ask the teacher if he/she can go over the stuff with you again before or after school. If he/she won't (which they should) then either go to another teacher who teaches it, or talk to your principal or vice principle.
2006-12-11 12:25:41 · answer #6 · answered by kari_cola 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) If you have access to computers, then you have an opportunity to learn.
2) Every teacher has a boss. Find your teacher's boss and complain.
Good luck!
2006-12-11 12:25:13 · answer #7 · answered by Link Correon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talk to your principal and see what he or she says. If nothing changes switch out, and until you can switch out, get a tutor.
2006-12-11 12:29:50 · answer #8 · answered by bridget l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a book -- O'Reilly makes excellent programming texts: http://www.oreilly.com/
2006-12-11 12:24:45 · answer #9 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk to the principal.
2006-12-11 12:25:07 · answer #10 · answered by traciatim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋