Student Quotations
Owen, Electronics Class, January, 2011
Teacher: "Before showing the video I am going to follow the advice of a student and first turn on the speaker". (teacher turns up the volume instead)
Owen: "You have to turn on the speakers first".
Nick, Electronics Class, January, 2011:
Teacher: "There is no sound with this video".
Nick: "Why don't you turn on the speakers?".
Moth Chasing: May 19, 2010
Presentation, AP Java, April 30, 2010
Comments in AP Physics B, March 31, 2010
Ben: "How do you like my nails today?"
Kynsey: "Pink is not your color."
Joe Griego, Feb 2, 2010: A Pictorial History of OpenGL
Hugh Wimberly, Jan 2002: "Why can't I ever get to class on time?" (statement to other students upon arriving late to class - in presence of Principal).
Franklin Hamilton, February 2003: "Today would be a perfect cricket day".
Franklin Hamilton, March 13, 2003: "I am only 2 weeks overdue on this assignment".
Zach LaBry, September 23, 2003: "If you do not have a point then do not use PowerPoint".
Jim Adolf, March 16, 2004: "Everybody is entitled to their false opinion".
Luis Ballesteros to Matt Strange, April 5, 2004: "You are still using C?"
Luis Ballesteros to the AP Java class, January 5, 2005, 2:29 PM: "I actually hate bubble sort"
Same day, 10 minutes earlier: "I love bubble sort".
Same day, 30 minutes earlier: "I hate bubble sort".
6 months earlier: "I love bubble sort".
Conversation between 2 students in AP Java class, February 2005
Zach LaBry: "I am getting strange errors when I run my Java program"
Jim Adolf: "Try writing correct code"
Conversation between 2 students in Advanced Robotics, April 10, 2006
Jerome: "This part does not fit"
Jakob: "That is because it is upside down"
Summer Session 2006: Visual Basic Class, June
Jim Mims: "Name a contribution of George Boole to the field of Computer Science"
Robert Peebles: "He was the first person to say No Bull
Punit Shah (TA): "No, I disagree. George Boole would have said Bull = False"
Conversation between Jim Mims and Teddy Witt, VB class: October 9, 2006
Jim Mims: That is a nice drawing of a 4-legged robot - apparently each leg is individually controlled by a cone head. The problem is that it is not
dynamically stable.
Teddy Witt: It is stable; that is the responsibility of the stability midget (denoted by SM) shown in red.
Jim Mims: But what purpose is served by the pin head? I need a mathematical relationship so that the situation will become clear.
Solution at top of above drawing provided by Nick Longenbough (Mobile Robotics class later in the day)
Jim Mims to the C++ class, November 2007. What is zero divided by 2?
Response from Chris O'Bryan: "You cannot use zero in division."
Summary of quadratic sorting algorithms by the AP Java class, Summarized and presented by Jack Ingalls, November 14, 2007.
Tom Allen, with photographic assistance by Jason Komets, C++, March 2008. Graphical explanation of a member function
Jason Komets, AP Java Class August 27, 2008
Jim Mims was contrasting C++ pointers with Java references and quoted a biased TV commentator "if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, smells like a duck, it is probably a duck". Mims then asked, "but what if the thing is poisonous and bites you - what would you call it?" Response from Jason: A Rattleduck.
Jim Mims to AP Java class, October 20, 2008
Venn diagrams are useful in analyzing statements of logic. Who invented Venn diagrams.
Response from Nick Longenbaugh: George Venn Boole
Jim Mims complimenting a student in AP Java class, February 10, 2009
There is a Noble prize somewhere in that brain
Response from Ben Scuderi in reference to the student - You would get a Nobel prize for finding it
Kynsey, 2009 Summer Session Visual Basic Class - program written to explain to class how to populate a 1-D array with random integers
Module
Module1
'Best Program ever!
Sub
Dim name As
String
Console.WriteLine("please enter your name")
name = Console.ReadLine()
If name =
"Kynsey" Then
Console.WriteLine("you are awesome")
ElseIf
name = "Jim Mims"
Then
Console.WriteLine("get your ears checked")
Else
Console.WriteLine("your lame")
End If
End Sub
End Module
Levi Brown, Summer Session Java 2009. A proof the the air filter for the lab projector is lying when it continuously states that it needs to be cleaned.
It receives the transmission that comes from the reptilian over lords trying to disrupt our brains. When we get distracted, that is when they transmit a high pitched tone in order to override our brains to blindly follow all rulers and religion. They control the government and all forms of control. The plan was to get everyone to get stronger brain disruptors…
Iliana Bray, Summer Session 2009: Visual Basic Poem
Visual Basic
By Iliana Bray
Visual Basic is so cool!
I like to use it
especially at school
Without pulling out my
hair.
It has integers, singles
and doubles.
While I work, don’t burst
my bubble.
It has if, for and while.
Visual Basic makes me
smile!
Subs and functions do the
job.
Because of them, I don’t
have to sob.
That’s not all Visual
Basic can do,
But I’m still learning,
and so are you!
Ryan, Summer Session 2009
Mims: What does it mean to start a loop at 0?
Response from Ryan: 0 is not a number.
Ben Berling, 9-2-09, AP Physics B class
Question from Mims to the class: Why do I require that you three-hole punch your labs?
Response from Ben: Because you want them stapled.
Ian
Nespolo, 1 February, 2008
Macs are way better. They are faster and can handle a lot more demanding
tasks. They are very good for video editing and music mixing. The PC is
about as boring and basic as it gets compared to the Mac.
David Hackett, 1 February, 2008
PC's beat Macs when it comes to gaming and other high-end uses. Also, Windows is more widely used and recognized.
David Baack, 1 February, 2008
Macs are like the new analog clocks the school installed. They would be fine, except no one knows how to use them.
Chase Burgett, 4 February, 2008
Ever notice how most Mac users are skinny? It's because of all the calories they
burn because they can't be quiet about how great their Macs are. What is it
about Apple that makes its users unable to shut their mouths? Everywhere I go,
there's another person with a Mac preaching about how much better Macs are than
PCs. They regurgitate lines directly from Apple's marketing campaign, like "it
just works." I have the following rebuttal to this argument (partial listing):
If everything on a Mac just works, then why does a website called "Mac fix it"
exist? Here are a few choice topics on
macfixitforums.com:
-Login window stuck!
-lower caSe "S" key not working!!
-Menu bar keeps flashing
-I can't drag and drop!
A: You can negotiate with a terrorist.
A: Four. One to consult the manual that came with it, one to call tech-support, and two to sit and wait for the 'Smiley Face' to appear and say 'Welcome to
Macintosh'.
David Kim, 4 February, 2008