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#5341 + ( )/56 - [ Report ]
// Compsci, talking about numbering system with Mr. Rose
Mr. Rose: Why do we use base 10 numbers?
Student A: Because we have 10 fingers.
Mr. Rose: Why do the Mayans use base 20 numbers?
Student B: Because they have 10 fingers and 10 toes.
Mr. Rose: I heard the Sumerians used a base 60 numbering system.
Mr. Rose: They must have looked really funny! -
#4522 + ( )/34 - [ Report ]
Stueben: The movie was about the English air force in World War I, and there was this pilot and his younger brother and the captain... [ten minute synopsis follows] So to pass tests, you have to get inside the teacher's head. Like the pilot, you have to become the person you hate the most. You have to become me.
Student: Wait. If the teacher is the captain in this metaphor, are the other students the Nazis? -
#3843 + ( )/35 - [ Report ]
// During Accelerated Comp Sci
Stueben: So there once was a man who worked at a factory trimming the edges off of books. He would slide the book into a slot and a big blade would come down and cut it. Once a piece of paper got stuck in the slot, so he reached in to move it, and the blade came down and sliced off his hand. Shocked, he reached in to pull his hand out, and the blade sliced off his other hand. What do you call a man like this?
Student: What?
Stueben: A bloody idiot! -
#3193 + ( )/75 - [ Report ]
// Story-time in compsci...
A: So we were at Starbucks and then this girl who's college-age comes in screaming that she can't sit outside because it's awkward.
Mr. Auerbach: Awkward?
A: Yeah.
Mr. Auerbach: How can it be awkward outside? Was it like raining ex-boyfriends?
Class: ... -
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// The Mr. Rose loop?
Mr. Rose: Why isn't it looping?
Brian: Well I-
Mr. Rose: Run it again.
*brian runs it*
Mr. Rose: Why isn't it looping?
Brian: I think its-
Mr. Rose: Run it again
*brian runs it*
Mr. Rose: Why isn't it looping?
Brian: My Syste-
Mr. Rose: Run it again
*brian runs it*
Mr. Rose: Why isn't it looping?
Mr. Rose: It would be much better if it looped, wouldn't it?
*Mr. Rose makes a X on Brian's yellow sheet*
*Brian takes out System. exit(0) from his code*
Brian: Mr. Rose, it works now
Mr. Rose: Wonderful!
Mr. Rose: Now your iterations are messed up!
*brian groans*