@McKenzie – as always, I applaud your exceptional teaching. Perhaps your students leave the “loading bar”s in precisely because they know you will comment them out? Who knows. Dan and I subscribe to the theory of introducing some sort of a penalty for exceptionally bad implementations, although that might be a bit harsh. It’s a gray area between loading a delay and playing “intro animation” by any other name.

At least they are not drawing randomly sized / positioned / coloured ellipses all over the screen. I think I’ll write another post about that.

The students’ age is relevant though. For young beginners, adding a loading bar could be considered practice (e.g. where to invoke it, when, how). But even then, it’d be hard to justify having a completely pointless bar that only “loads delay”.

I am glad to be publishing posts again too! Although it seems that the pace will be slowed down for some time. It’s summer, I’m incredibly involved with my job and I have other projects that require more of my attention. Thank you for commenting though, I will attempt to keep up with occasional posts still.

I remember saying it to the Dr. “I wasted my time, people who work got low grades, people who didn’t got high grades”. The shock was the Dr. reply
“I know they got ready made framework, but they customized and made it work to Kuwait environment”!!! What does environment has to do with computer program? It will work no matter where!

Sadly this is the quality we have over here most of the time. But I couldn’t care less as I learned. I work to improve my self not please my professor.

Anyways, glad to see a post finally. I was missing your blog

I agree, sometimes schools give to much attention to the visual and superficial “features”, instead of focusing on how it was achieved, hot it was taught.