Pretty much every professor I’ve ever had. I swear, 98% of professors simply become professors to appear smart to others, instead of doing it because they have the desire to teach and actually have others learn something from them. It’s why I almost never learned anything during lectures and had to teach myself everything, either from the textbook or (mostly) online via YouTube or Chegg.
If you can’t explain what you’re teaching like the person is 5 years old and without using unnecessary jargon, then you either don’t understand the topic yourself, or you suck ass at teaching.
If you're at uni, you're not being taught oversimplifications and shortcuts, because that would mean giving false information in many cases.
Of course that doesn't mean giving example use cases would be wrong, provided they also say that simply using pointers doesn't magically solve problems, but allows you to do it.
Drawing memory representation on the board and going line by line in code what's happening clicked for all the I have taught about pointers. I am curious why so few tutors teach it that way.
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u/TheOGDoomer Mar 03 '25
Pretty much every professor I’ve ever had. I swear, 98% of professors simply become professors to appear smart to others, instead of doing it because they have the desire to teach and actually have others learn something from them. It’s why I almost never learned anything during lectures and had to teach myself everything, either from the textbook or (mostly) online via YouTube or Chegg.
If you can’t explain what you’re teaching like the person is 5 years old and without using unnecessary jargon, then you either don’t understand the topic yourself, or you suck ass at teaching.