Looking for some advice before applying to TESC/TESU

[alzee]

Oh thank God.

I thought it was just me.

In addition to the material that doesn't align with the real world, technically, the questions often had more than one acceptable answer. Or were wrong.

I felt you really, really need to buy into the teachers' point of view if you want to succeed, including their concepts of dates, and when things began, and were superceded.

I barely passed. I'm not dumb about computers OR networking OR the history (I was around for much of it!)

Same here. I've been working in the field for over 20 years now, and it was a hobby before that. During this course I had opened a ticket with SL expressing my extreme displeasure with the material and pointing out specific issues like the mesh issue above. I was keeping a text file open where I logged every such problem I found and, at their request, was updating the ticket periodically (usually at the end of each module) with all the problems I'd found.

About 3/4 of the way through, without warning, they just closed the ticket on me with no response or resolution. I passed the course with an 80 or 85% I think, I'm too lazy to go look, but it was really an exercise in frustration and patience.

At one point I remember a question was asking which was a more appropriate language to author a webpage, C or PHP. The obvious answer they wanted was PHP, but the reason they gave was so idiotic that I really wanted to find the author and just strangle them. The reason given was that, as a webpage, the code was most likely to run in a web browser, and web browsers support PHP and not C. This "logic" misses the mark so badly that I'm convinced the author doesn't actually know *anything* about web development except that PHP is involved.. sometimes.. somehow.