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[Brandon W]

I just had ICT, on break now, and we are building a webpage for a game we are building. We are forced to use Dreamweaver and I hate dreamweaver a lot so I wrote my own code in the code view. He came up to me and asked me what I was doing and he yelled at me for not using WYSISWYG! He drove me crazy! He should be happy!!

[WingedPanther]

If you want to be REALLY obnoxious, you could agree to use a WYSIWYG editor from Portable Apps:
I would recommend the following for web development:
Notepad++
Kompozer
Gimp
FireFox with these extensions: web developer (true WYSIWYG!), fireFTP, firebug
SunBird (to organize your time)
OpenOffice (for writing those pesky PDF files)
7-zip
winMD5Sum
winMerge (version comparison)

Drop them on a pen drive and you are ready to create for the web :)

Having suggested all that, I clearly remember that teachers do NOT always reward creativity, so YMMV.

[Brandon W]

What is YYMV?

I would love to do that but we can't run applications unless it's from U drive which is on the school network.

If I could run portable apps I would be taking Notepad++ for sure but we can't :( also we use to have Firefox 2 on the computers with IE6 but they took away Firefox leaving IE6. But we do have Flash CS3, Fireworks CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3.

But he still shouldn't get up me for writing code.

[Termana]

I know how you feel teachers dont like when students are smarter then them - for my school we have to do a website on something i told my teacher ill do it on computer programming hePosted via CodeCall Mobile

[Termana]

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[Brandon W]

I just read your post again Winged. And I don't care if I get extra marks or not for coding it myself since I know I won't. Just I don't like to use WYSIWYG.

I am smarter then both my computering teachers and I know this for fact. I correct them all the time. Plus they read a book during the lesson to help them if they get lost, not every lesson. And when they don't have to book I correct them.

[zeroradius]

lol , those who can't do teach. I get the same problem. I once had a proffesor get mad and say we where nothing but black box programmers and we needed to learn COBOL because it is the language of the future! That was at the begining of the year. My class was supose to use Dreamweaver in another class i had, but I refused and sence the proffesor did not know web programming and needed my help to put together his class we used my fave editor - Notepad

[WingedPanther]

My sister used to program in COBOL... I've got a book on it and would only code in that mess for good money.

[Xav]

My teachers know nothing about web design. I often had to help them when we briefly covered it in class.

[WingedPanther]

My experience in the public schools (as a teacher): when it comes to computers, most teachers are idiots. When it comes to students, most of them assume all their teachers are idiots (rude shock when they find one that isn't and can pull up the web-site they plagiarized from in under 2 minutes).

[Xav]

Unfortunately nobody in our school knows how to do web design anyway.

[Aereshaa]

I didn't take a programming course my school offered for g10. At the end of the year, I went to the teacher who would be teaching it and this scene played out:
Me: I'd like to show you a game I made a few weeks ago.
Teach: You made a game? (rolls eyes) Lemme see.
(Shows him a clone of Pong, complete with AI)
Teach: So, did you use VB or Java?
Me: I coded it in C.
Teach: No you didn't, you can't make graphics in C!
Me: ... You don't know wth you're talking about. (Leaves)

So yeah. The computer science teacher knows almost nothing, and the course is taught in VB. FAIL.