Why not to learn programming at Anna University

Kinda repost.. stolen from my old blog. Of course I don’t mean to offend anybody or critic their programming skills, but this is the way things go on around here.

Top 10 reasons not to learn programming at Anna University

• Girl: Whats “ptr” and “a”.
  Boy: “ptr” a pointer, and “a” is an array
  Girl: Huh ? You didn’t even look at the datatypes.

• Class genius knows nothing better than “Find the output of i+++i++i+i++i++i”, and always claims right-to-left evaluation.

• This:

Girl: show me your program
Boy: Its very simple.

void main() {
int *p;
int a=4;
p = &a;
printf(“%d”,*p);
}

Girl: My goodness! It has pointer. Its a tough program. Lets tell sir not to ask it in the exam.

• Linux over a console is UNIX.

• You will never learn what to do with a pointer other than declaring it.

• You will head to “NIIT” and be certified a master Java professional, and end up learning nothing anyway. Chances are a 2nd year student who completed OOPs knows more than you.

• You will wonder which book the programming geniuses learn programming from (to program so well, of course).

• Even at the end of the course, you’re gonna think Pass 1 and Pass 2 are two types of assemblers

• No matter whatever state-of-the-art or cutting-edge-technology lab you have, there’s invarably gonna be a student details program, not to mention “Swap 2 numbers using Nanotechnological assembly language”.

  These 2 programs are so notorious that they found their way even into the compiler and OS lab. In fact, the start of a new laboratory is marked auspiciously by these 2 programs.

• You are never going to know when to use semicolons after a “for” loop.

• After all this tedious programming and days of fainting, swearing and hardwork, you find that Infy doesn’t give a damn about whatever programming you know and only wants you to solve “Find the odd one out !!” and “What is the next in sequence?”