Author: James Robertson
Date: 23:31:36 03/30/00
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On March 29, 2000 at 23:55:21, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 29, 2000 at 19:29:34, James Swafford wrote: > >> >>I had an appointment with the CompSci chair at East >>Carolina University today. I was hoping to "bypass" >>an intro course based on prior experience with computers. >> >>We sat down, and he proceeded to ask me a series of >>questions to gauge my knowledge. He asked me about >>hashing, pointers, binary search trees, and the like. >>I mentioned that I work on a chess program in my spare >>time. >> >>We talked about computer chess for a while, and.... >>as a result, he awarded me 2510/2610/2611 and 3510! >>(That's two intro courses, a lab, and a data structures >>course.) >> >>So, the list of "benefits" I have received from computer >>chess has grown! By 10 hours of "knowledge credit" to be >>exact. :-) >> >>Just thought I'd share. :-)) >> >>-- >>James > >Your school sounds more enlightened than mine. I skipped the intro class. But >it's a requirement for graduation, so I have to take it. But I'm not allowed to >take it now because I already took data structures. Extremely annoying. > >-Tom Sounds familiar. I wanted to take a statistics course at a community college to get it out of the way, but they wouldn't let me because I hadn't taken the prerequisite (basic math). So, I "sat in" on the class and filed a waiver. I began to get worried when I had already invested 2 months into the class and the promised waiver never came. Finally, that summer, a month after the class was over and I could no longer recieve credit, I revieved a waiver of the basic math class for that previous semester only. James
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