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Distance Ed Work Load
What is everyones experiences specifically about working far ahead. Like doing most of the classes work early, before its due, and like finishing the course a month or two early?
I know in CMPT 165 that know-it-all Andy Shen posted he had finished all the assignments week one. Has anyone else ever done that in a real course? So far I've just done all my work as it needs to be done.
I know in CMPT 165 that know-it-all Andy Shen posted he had finished all the assignments week one. Has anyone else ever done that in a real course? So far I've just done all my work as it needs to be done.
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i use a calender and write down all the dates that they are due
i only took 2 distance ed before, kin 143 and cmpt 165
all the cmpt assignments were due on fri and kin were usually due on wed
so then i would start on monday and make myself finish on wed
This is what I'll probably do for HIST 338: WWII. Ok, who is this Andy Shen guy? The only thing I know about him is that he got quite a bit of heat by asking some guy to run for another position in some SFSS election. I also checked his Facebook profile and found that he is in both the SFU and UBC network. Either he just don't know how to use Facebook or he is some sort of prodigy attending two universities at the same time...
Since you have to figure everything out yourself, the workload could very well be more than a lecture since some times some things you just can't ask anyone.
The homework is another problem, most people won't actually do it till the last minute.
The CMPT 165 are fairly easy. I was able to finish each assignments in no more than 20 minutes. If you have friends that were in CMPT 165 (Spring 2008) C100, you can ask them about me. I am sure that they all know me (if they were active in the class).
I have provided guidance to some students regarding their assignments and they were able to complete their assignments within an hour. I have people that are able to witness this. You may even ask the class supervisor, Greg Baker, to validate this information.
Reference: http://talksfu.ca/showthread.php?p=34304&highlight=Andy#post34304
If any of you need guidance, you can feel free to send me a facebook message or email me at [email]andy@sfu.ca[/email].
@collegestudent
The reason why I was able to finish the whole course so fast is because I know XHTML, Python, Java, and cpp inside out. I did not need to look at any references or do any readings to complete the assignment. You can finish it as fast as me if you know Python and XHTML. I have been programming for almost a decade now. If I cannot finish the course fast, then something is wrong.
@summerheaven
Andy Shen is a person who knows a lot about Simon Fraser University. He even made a website explaining most of the stuff regarding SFU. If you want to read the site, check out http://andyshen.org/me/. I can answer most of your SFU questions. If you were to search for keywords such as SFU WQB on Google, most likely you will be able to find my website. If you think that I am an idiot, then I feel sorry for most of the SFU population. If you want to know me academically, I can tell you that I did get an A+ in CMPT 165.
@Student0667
For your information, I am attending both universities. I have courses at SFU on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and courses at UBC on Thursdays (APSC 122 and APSC 176). Also, I do know how to use Facebook.
Speaking of the Simon Fraser Student Society election, I feel that I owe everyone an apology. I should not have acted the way I did in the election. The election was more like an CFS vs. Separatist election. My goal was to make sure that none of the CFS supporter got onto the board. We all knew that we were going to leave the CFS and we also knew that the CFS-BC would sue us. It would be a conflict of interest if the CFS supporters were handling the lawsuit, wouldn't it? Especially when the person responsible for external relations is the girlfriend of the CFS-BC president.
I recommended people to run for other positions because I did not wish for all the Separation supporters to be concentrated in one position - it does no one good except for the CFS.
@xxk1nky
How was I a loser in high school? As far as I know, you never attended my high school. You might have got the biased information from students who dislike me. I can say that not all students like me but there are more students that like me than those who do not.
By adding everyone from Simon Fraser University to my Facebook is not a try-hard. It is called trying to assist students in helping them with their course selections. I most likely have added you because you were (1) in one of my clubs, (2) in one of my courses, (3) or you have asked me a question before, most likely in the SFU 2011 or SFU 2012 group. My goal is basically to try to give information to those that need it.
I only have to visit the mental hospital 3-4 times a week now!!!
Damn, I can hardly write in the 3rd person for more than 1 and a half sentences.
Anyways, I have gone to your website and basically I feel like you just copied and pasted it from SFU's website/e-mails (that have been sent to me) and altering bits and pieces of it by adding your useless little comments. When I read your website it seemed really idiotic (hence, why I think you're an idiot) because it had no personality what-so-ever and it just seems like a place where you can try and show others that you're a know-it-all.
Also, you added a friend of mine of facebook and he showed me this note you posted and you were basically bashing SFU because they took out the requirements for taking provincials or something. And nearly everyone who replied told you to get your facts straight because SFU is one of the last universities (if not the last at all) to do that. SFU even did it BEFORE UBC and you were dissing SFU and praising UBC in your little note. And unable to defend yourself, you deleted the note. I agree with you 100%, Alex.... SFU's a great school and all, but priding yourself on knowing alot about the school and even having a website on it isn't something to brag about.... I don't even think the people who work at the information desk stick thier chin up in the air at their high school reunion bragging about how much they know about SFU.
He boasts of his academic achievement flaunting an A+ in CMPT 165. As a self-professed web programming whiz, he ought to know how easy that is to get and that anything less than an A+ would be disappointing.
His conceited benevolence rings true in his website as well, where he refers to himself in the third person no less than 14 times on his pretentious usage policy page.
I don't normally go for personal attacks, but Mr. Shen just strikes me as exactly the kind of know-it-all egotist that I despise-- and I mean the bad kind of egotist, not the good one.
Oh and i call bullshit on him having classes at SFU and UBC. Don't universities revoke admission offers once you register somewhere else? I'm actually surprised he's not RTW.
Less Facebook, more textbook!
I remember reading this newspaper article about some women who was so devastated that she couldn't get into a college (this was in the US) that she went nuts and thought she was in one! She came into someone's dorm room and said there was some sort of problem with her rooming and asked if she could stay there and she ended up living with her for a year or something. And she would attend lectures and all that kind of crap. No one suspected a thing until it was time to reassign rooms for dorms and the dorm advisor didn't have that crazy woman on record and then everyone found out that she wasn't even a registered student in the college... And I think she lied about her age, she was older than she said she was.
I forgot what happened next, I think she skipped town or something.
For trying to assist students with their course selections, I think I'm speaking for a bunch of us first years when I say, "who asked you?" You added my friend out of no where (probably because he asked some questions on the 2012 group, BUT he was not asking YOU directly) and you started privately messaging him and pressuring him to take weird classes that he didn't need (like some random math class when he's studying IAT??) and you justified it by saying that you don't want students to 'make the wrong decisions and pick crappy courses?' Frankly, I was pissed off about that.
What also really annoys me is when people post questions on the SFU facbook groups you somehow have this weird god-complex thinking that the question is directly to you, and only you, because you would add them and send them a private message with your answer.
And don't worry, no one who dislikes you told me anything about you. I don't like you all on my own.
Not to mention APSC 122 is a TERM 2 course....how are you taking it this term??
/bumping a 14 month old topic