Colleges are even worse than this. Almost every professor I had had the same schpeel: you will literally be expected to have read the entire section already before coming to class so that the lecturer will not need to spend any time explaining the topic. You are expected to have tried some of the homework problems and come prepared with those instead. The lecture is not to go over the material expected of you, but to go over a summary of the material you already taught yourself before you got to class. And since this is the case, it makes you really wonder what the hell the recitation period is for. Then on top of that, why do you have office hours, which your also implicitly expected to attend.
How fucking useless is your period of instruction if you shouldn't learn anything from it, you'll have to recite it elsewhere, and if you got questions take it to office hours. What the fuck is the point of the lecture in the first place?
What is the point of the class if all we're doing is going over the book? Shouldn't I just read the book by myself?
Hang on... why is the book also terrible? Who fucking designed this ridiculous thing?!!!
Despite all that, I still 'passed' and even got a B for my 3D work because that's what I was actually interested in ( The fucking cretins ) despite it being advertised as a 'games design' course we did not look at a single game engine or line of code and 3D modelling was barely taught. They were more interested in prepping people for university.
That's exactly right. Literally no one in that class knew anything about game design, 3D modeling, or anything else. They just new that it could be a safe, easy, course to teach and the kids wouldn't know anything about the topic to challenge it, and so long as they did University prep, it was close enough.
Colleges are even worse than this. Almost every professor I had had the same schpeel: you will literally be expected to have read the entire section already before coming to class so that the lecturer will not need to spend any time explaining the topic. You are expected to have tried some of the homework problems and come prepared with those instead. The lecture is not to go over the material expected of you, but to go over a summary of the material you already taught yourself before you got to class. And since this is the case, it makes you really wonder what the hell the recitation period is for. Then on top of that, why do you have office hours, which your also implicitly expected to attend.
How fucking useless is your period of instruction if you shouldn't learn anything from it, you'll have to recite it elsewhere, and if you got questions take it to office hours. What the fuck is the point of the lecture in the first place?
What is the point of the class if all we're doing is going over the book? Shouldn't I just read the book by myself?
Hang on... why is the book also terrible? Who fucking designed this ridiculous thing?!!!
That's exactly right. Literally no one in that class knew anything about game design, 3D modeling, or anything else. They just new that it could be a safe, easy, course to teach and the kids wouldn't know anything about the topic to challenge it, and so long as they did University prep, it was close enough.