[Netcob]

In CS, I loved most of the practical assignments/projects. Especially those where students had some freedom to come up with creative solutions. Even having things go wrong was fun now and then when it ended up teaching me that I could think on my feet and come up with a solution on the spot.

Sitting in a huge room, copying things off of a blackboard or simply trying to stay awake watching one slide after the other (usually stuffed with text so that you had to choose between listening to the professor or reading the slide) wasn't fun at all.

I can program just for the fun of it, but I have a hard time learning just to learn something new. Wish it wasn't like that, but it is. So when I learn it's more like this:

1. I learn about new tools that I can use to make things

2. I pick one or two and try to do something

3. I get stuck, but I have a much better understanding of the problems involved now

Now that's the point at which I'd like to be able to talk to a teacher and get back to #1, but this time on a higher level. I need to "play" with knowledge in order to understand it.

[restless]

"trying to stay awake watching one slide after the other" these I hated the most the PowerPointProfs and in their exams question where like "name 6 things of something" where they wanted to have the things listed from their presentation and only their presentation.

[dozzie]

If you learn mainly about tools, then it's not computer science, it's IT.