[quote name='SteveDeFacto' timestamp='1329754054' post='4914833']
It's as if their brains are simply not wired for any type of critical thinking.

I find this amusing because, having seen posts of yours both in this forum and in the technical ones, I've found myself thinking the same thing about you.

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I understand that but I would at least think a normal person should be able to understand a simple if then statement without much effort. However, I appears very difficult if not impossible for most of them.

And to them, most normal people should be able to understand simple sports talk and celebrity gossip, but I have a feeling you're quite deficient in that area. So who is able to communicate effectively with most people, and who has problems expressing basic concepts to the majority of people? Yet, somehow, they are the ones with the problem?

[quote name='SteveDeFacto' timestamp='1329758748' post='4914868']
It's not coding. Many of my non-coder friends I consider equals.

*shrugs* coding... technical skills... whatever, my point still stands and you seem to have this narrow world view that nothing else matters based on your posting history here (example; a country made only of high tech savy people where those who are needed to do other jobs are nothing but a defacto underclass or simply imported to do the work with no say in the country. Yeah, I remembered that one because it was a stupid idea.).

And now you turn up because people who want to learn something new, for whatever reason, aren't apprently grasping it as fast as you (aside; I could program basically at 5, I took 7 years out before starting again, within 3 years I could program in 68000 assembler, by your age I knew 3 or 4 languages) and that somehow this makes you sooooo much better than them and instead of trying to help them decide to mock them instead.

Not everyone gets everything, there is no shame in that, and the sooner you grow up, stop seeing the world in black and white and realise that you are hardly above average yourself the better.
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Your point does not still stand. I know a guy who is going to school to be a pharmacist, does all kinds of drugs, and has only an average level of technical skills. I even know an illegal immigrant who has very little technical skills. Both of these people I consider equal. When I say intelligence I am speaking of intelligence and not some bias towards computer nerds.

You are filled with hypocrisy, good sir. :|

http://www.gamedev.n...ted-with--in-c/

(Ok, not the best example perhaps, i'm not sure what posts phantom were refering to and my google skills are quite weak)

http://www.gamedev.n...ted-with--in-c/

You should see people that don't understand things as well as you as an opportunity to better yourself. There are scientific studies that have tested how people gain knowledge, and teaching people drastically increases your understanding of subject matter.

edit: I don't want to waste another post with this, but if you're in an intro class you can't test out of you should essentially have a lower course load since you know all the stuff. Why not use the extra time to do something awesome that could get you a scholarship/research grant? Start a student organization? Join a sport? Get really really drunk and have uninhibited sex with lots of promiscuous teenage (BUT NOT ILLEGALLY TEENAGE) women? If there are women in your class, why not impress them with your understanding and ability to help them understand without looking like a dillhole lording his knowledge over them. Perhaps they will let you have uninhibited sex with them because they are promiscuous and above legal age of consent?

YOU ARE LOOKING AT THIS OPPORTUNITY AS AN ANCHOR! YOU ARE THE REASON SHIT LIKE SOPA GETS MADE!

18 - 20 years old in an intro talking about stuff that's not intellectually deep or stimulating. No surprise there. Plus, at that age, if you think you're really getting "intellectual" with your conversations, you really are mislead. I have no idea what is your definition of an "intellectual" conversation is, but you can't tell me that 90% of your class are neanderthals with nothing inbetween their ears.

...but you can't tell me that 90% of your class are neanderthals with nothing inbetween their ears.

You could quite easily tell me that.

What im not so sure of is that you distinguish yourself meaningfully from them.

I can say that burp gold as well, it doesn't make it true. Which is the point I'm making, Mr. SmartyPants (notice, I keep kid-friendly)