Subj : Taking a community college CIS/C++ course
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 17 2024 09:49 am

  Re: Taking a community college CIS/C++ course
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Jan 16 2024 05:53 pm

 >  DM> 2. The online labs/course work (in something called "Canvas") is
 >  DM> hodge-podge, contradictory and just kind of a mess of video "labs"
 >  DM> (more demos, with very low audio levels), bad copy/pasted
 >  DM> UNICODE-translated (so, not compilable) source code
 >
 > Interesting..  Canvas sort of rings a bell, though I'm not sure if I've used
 > it.  My instructors in college just had us do our work in Visual Studio.

The student is expected to edit, build, run their code in either Visual Studio/Visual C++ or XCode. "Canvas" is just the web app they use for organizing and delivering the assignments and accepting submissions. I think Canvas software is fine, but the professor hasn't done a lot of quality-control of the content. It's all over the place, includes old or repeated content and gives contradictory guidance (e.g. lab/assignment numbering). But it's a community college, so I don't think there's a lot of peer review (of the professor's content) going on.
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