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MehGerbil wrote: The instructions from the instructor are so bad that I've a hard time accepting
the idea that someone can pass off that advice without it being a policy of some
sort.
Certainly not my experience.
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He did note that it was the "school's policy".
That sounds like a valid call to move on as they're making their failures his failures.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I would use the term "F*ck Him".
Do it yourself and let him sink or swim on his own.
It is not your fault he is dyslexic, and you are not a qualified teacher.
If he was too lazy or too thick to pass after the first attempt then that is his problem not yours.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Do it all yourself and at the viva let him answer the questions - you will get the credit and he will get to look like an arse...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Or, you could try to teach him.
It's surprising what you can learn by teaching people, particularly about a subject you thought you knew well.
In a way, it's a compliment: the teacher is saying "I think you are good enough to do this"
In a way he is right: You do meet this in the real world, and if you can't cope with it there it's a lot more expensive for you than finding it out now. In the real world, you could be saddled with a waste of oxygen for ten years - and have to do his work as well as your own...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: In the real world, you could be saddled with a waste of oxygen for ten years - and have to do his work as well as your own...
Sounds like you speak from experience. Who got saddled with you? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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All of them did, obviously! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You're right, I could take it as a compliment... if he knew me at all (he doesn't know my background/skill).
In the real life scenario, can't you 'expose' him to your boss by performing code review with some of your peers (assuming he's not the only peer you have)?
In my situation, that would be showing the line where he tries to cast an int to a string when he should be using toString().
The first rule of CListCtrl is you do not talk about CListCtrl - kornman
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The dream's of innocence, how cute.
In the real world, that dumb-feck is there because he's the boss's brother/son/mate and you've gotta man up, grow a pair and carry the retardon.
speramus in juniperus
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Dats da kitty!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Having taught college, I recommend that you make one more attempt to talk to the instructor. Tell him that you have made every effort to help this other student, but it's not working.
If you don't get results, then go speak to the instructor's boss, typically the head instructor or Dean of Students.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Good advice. 
/ravi
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Welcome to the real world. 
It's not going to get any better after you graduate and get a job. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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nbgangsta wrote: Nonetheless, I have tried to take his advice but I can't get my team mate to understand OOP concepts.
There's an old teacher saying, "if the learner hasn't learnt, the teacher hasn't taught". It could be that you don't understand OOP well enough to teach it - and this exercise is a great way for you to solidify this knowledge yourself.
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There is a lot of truth in that.
I can do OOP but I can't always explain it to someone who barely knows the subject.
Teaching is the best way to understand the matter, that much is true, but I don't have the time to do it.
This gets frustrating when the person doesn't see the difference between casting to a string and use the toString() method (which is the case).
That difference tells me that almost nothing of the classes he's taken have stuck with him.
The first rule of CListCtrl is you do not talk about CListCtrl - kornman
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It could be that you don't understand OOP well enough to teach it
That pretty much is an excellent reason for someone not to be teaching it.
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nbgangsta wrote: The programming language is Java, which we learned in our first year, and he failed his exams twice.
That's just ridiculous, unless that course was somehow over a million times as hard as the one I followed back in university. My guinea pigs could pass that course.
nbgangsta wrote: So, what should I do?
Can you afford to fail this class and re-take it? That should probably be the very last back-up plan, because it's terrible. It does have the nice effect of not letting that sucker that you got teamed with pass.
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Just do the work your self, in the end of the day it's your grades that will suffer if you don't get it done.
What's up with your user name? Are you in a gang?
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About my name: I made it years ago and when all that stuff was cool.
I kind of regret that now.
I'm changing my username 
The first rule of CListCtrl is you do not talk about CListCtrl - kornman
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Haha I was just kidding. Good luck with the project
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Make a good faith effort to teach your partner. If it fails again, speak with the teacher. (And though it's cliche, teaching someone else how to do something really is a good way to learn it better yourself.)
Regardless, don't depend on your partner for the project, even though that means extra work for you and your partner gets a good grade for doing nothing. Now that's real world experience!
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I suppose my reply to him would be that the school has obviously been unable to teach him successfully thus far, and they're (supposedly) professionals at teaching, so how do they expect you to teach him when you're still learning.
Also, you signed up for a class to learn, not to teach people they failed to teach. If you wanted to learn to teach, you would have signed up for such a course.
While true that you will have to deal with similar situations in the future, you will typically have much more recourse - like going to the person's manager with this issue and have them do something about it. Obviously some cases there isn't much you can do, like when the person is the child of someone higher up, but by and large I've found that raising the issue to their manager helps a lot, if not outright solves the issue.
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nbgangsta wrote: So, what should I do?
See this[^] reply. It's good advice.
/ravi
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That's what I had to do in the same situation.
Dave.
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I have been out of school for a few years now, but I am well versed in dealing with people that don't have a clue what they are doing.
College :
I was with a guy that had to be mentally ill in some way, on a project that was basically a 3 tier website. He often would cry when he had trouble understanding things. Yes, cry!. I was faced with the task of getting a project done in a week with a guy that wasn't very much help. I could do it alone but I would be up nights and have zero time for testing or flashy stuff which is where I really learned the most. What I ended up doing was assign him a list of pages and have him build them as static pages with a css file and then I built the database and back end logic and gave him some help connecting them but always made sure he looked it up at least once before asking me. He ended up failing out after he had some sort of break down.
The Great thing about learning to deal with dead weight :
My first job after college was a programmer for a call center where I was the only one there that had any clue at all. Not a great place to learn, but the idiot that built the the foundation for there system with visual basic and MS Access was my boss. He had no education beyond high School and this was the only technical job he ever had. So having experience at being tactful and educational came in handy.
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