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by wizzard 2638 days ago
Yes, this bothers me greatly, particularly since in 2018-19 you could throw a pebble in any direction and hit someone who knows JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML. You almost have to go out of your way to find someone who doesn’t. I’m sure this guy is great at other things but students are paying thousands of dollars for this education.

I only remember having one prof who clearly didn’t know the material. He spent most of every class just copying code onto the board by hand, then trying to talk about it a bit. I really didn’t learn much in that class. Unfortunately it was the foundational C++ class at my university and really kind of handicapped me in successive classes that were also taught in C++.

My alma mater? The University of Michigan.

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> in 2018-19 you could throw a pebble in any direction and hit someone who knows JS/jQuery/CSS/HTML.

You could, but they all have jobs doing actual programming. Universities pay sub-poverty wages to adjuncts to teach most of their classes and so this is what they get. It sounds like this person at least cares and is working hard to teach the material.