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Originally Posted by PieMan597
Six to eight years? In my two years of computer classes, I have learned nothing, except the addresses of game sites that aren't blocked.
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It was easier to pay attention to the lessons and to study in the olden days, with no Internet or multimedia to distract us. There were not even portable audio cassette players. Just AM transistor radios, for background music while studying. But we carried lots of (really heavy) books...
Also, sitting front and center and looking the teacher in the eyes with rapt attention helped a lot.
Though Google is tempting as a "study partner", its tangential nature will always lead us astray when the temptation to explore blind alleyways and chase the wild goose are much too strong for mere mortal minds...
Keep your nose in the books, and "meld minds" with your teachers, but above all, keep a healthy curiosity and WRITE CODE, pure code, letting classroom assignments be a mere doorway for exploration.
And get some relevant microprocessor databooks and study those too. Get some devkits (or kindles) and write some NATIVE CODE (see the index wikis), and THEN write some embedded firmware (perhaps by tweaking existing reference examples first).