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Old 05-12-2008, 02:33 PM   #16
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Re: DMACC classes

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Surely you aren't referring to a M$ product and standards in the same breath


Perhaps a poor choice of words.

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Old 05-12-2008, 02:44 PM   #17
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My opinion, you are all being a little rough on the community colleges. You get from them, what you put in. The testing may be less rigorous, but the material is all the same. If you take the time to learn and process some of the more difficult information, even if you won't be tested over it then I think it is certainly worth your time.

Side note: I know a comsci major who had to take a physics course at dmacc to get his bach at ISU, his last semester that was his only course, no ISU classes, just the one dmacc course. He struggled with it all semester and barely passed with a C.

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Old 05-12-2008, 02:48 PM   #18
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My opinion, you are all being a little rough on the community colleges. You get from them, what you put in. The testing may be less rigorous, but the material is all the same. If you take the time to learn and process some of the more difficult information, even if you won't be tested over it then I think it is certainly worth your time.

Side note: I know a comsci major who had to take a physics course at dmacc to get his bach at ISU, his last semester that was his only course, no ISU classes, just the one dmacc course. He struggled with it all semester and barely passed with a C.
Well, he's a com sci major. If he was good at physics he would have been an engineer

Seriously, I agree. At any school you're only going to get out of it what you put in. For me, I just needed a C in speech to graduate and I wanted the least painful route to that C. DMACC fit the bill nicely.

DISCLAIMER: I was a com sci major.

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Old 05-13-2008, 12:14 AM   #19
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I went back to school at Indian Hills after getting my M.A.. I was surprised at how challenging the material was.

While I went for a technical degree, I was surprised at how well the math was taught. In my technical field (Aircraft Maintenance), math up to Calculus is required, and they effectively brought a class of "math illiterates" up to Calc level in two semesters. As a professional educator, I was impressed as all heck at what great instruction it was.

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Old 05-13-2008, 10:01 AM   #20
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BTW - If you just want to learn Java without taking a class I highly recommend the Head First series published by O'Reilly. The style of writing is very unique and easy to comprehend. Also, Effective Java by Jashua Bloch is a must have. The second edition just came out.

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Old 05-13-2008, 04:10 PM   #21
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Although this doesn't apply specifically to the class you are considering, here is my experience with DMACC. About 10 years ago, took 2 econ classes for my undergraduate degree. The best way to describe it is the 13th grade, just like high school. There were no assignments, I spent only 1/2 hour studying before each multiple-choice test, I only went to 1/2 of the classes, and still ended up with more points than were possible due to the extra-credit test questions. Amazingly, there were classmates that were scraping by with C's and D's.
I'll agree with this assessment at ICCC too. I took AP and college classes at my high school and then college classes at their campus too. AP was loads tougher than both and generally the college classes at the high school were tougher than those at ICCC campus itself. Spent a little more time in class and studying than that though(but not much in terms of studying).
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