(11-10-2012, 04:36 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: This is the inevitable result of a large class size. Mass education makes it impossible to slow down.
I think that the department really didn't want students coming into higher-level C++ programming classes and saying "well, we never learned that." They probably wanted everyone (the ones that pass at least) on the same base, more or less, when taking advanced classes. If they slow down for one semester, it messes with that base that teachers in the advanced classes expect students to know.