Can we talk about 101 classes?

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#1

Im going to lose my mind in here, we are learning how to zip files, make pdfs and incorrect terms for computer hardware…

However, it is required… I guess I will sit here, beating my brains out.

#2

Without 101 classes, I would have had no idea this was a CPU:

10/10 would learn again

On a serious note, I’ve been looking at universities recently, and all of them have a CS 101 class, but on most you can do a project instead if you already know stuff.

#3

What are 101 classes?

#4

I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that I haven’t had any of these in uni. On the plus side, it means I don’t have to put up with being mind-numbingly bored, but on the other hand it means I have to learn more complicated new stuff…

#5

Actual ICT class:

#6

Closest thing I got to a 101 class was my IT105 class, where we learned how to code in Python and made simple programs, cumulating with a text-based game. Never had that low-level of a course.

#7

Are 101 classes basically ICT lessons?

I did Python not to long ago in ICT Meta

#8

A 101 class goes over the super basics of stuff

#9

I hated most of my first year courses! Sometimes second year isn’t much better. Just hold out, and remember that university it as much about teaching someone how to think than it is about what to think. It gets better!

#10

I have this course on Fridays at 10AM, called “Intro to C.S.” that is listed not even as a 101, but a 100.

It is literally, in every sense of the phrase, “How to university”.

I learn absolutely nothing, as it is all common sense, yet missing either two consecutive class periods of this (AKA two weeks in a row) or more than three total, I fail. It is nothing more than a Pass or Fail, and is mandated.

#11

Interesting. I wouldn’t fail an academic class if I missed “x” number of lessons, but missing a single lesson without an excuse would guarantee a loss of a weekend (or more) by means of “Hours”: walking back and forth across an area under arms for hours a length. One unexcused absence rates about 5-7 hours as punishment. You can only serve so many hours on one weekend though, so repeat offenses could cumulate in a number of hours that would prevent anything from getting done for several weekends.

Also: What are ICT lessons?

#12

ICT, also known as IT, is the British name given to the study of computer usage, for example Microsoft® Word, or basic programming such as Scratch.

#13

Internet and Communications Techology

#14