Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science
I&#x27;m sorry, but I think this just has to do with bad study habits. I may be wildly off base here (I don&#x27;t know the author&#x27;s habits) I just have the quotes in the article:<p>&gt; I just couldn’t understand a word that the teacher was saying<p>&gt; T.A.’s had to explain over, and over, and over again the simplest concepts<p>&gt; I wasn’t grasping a thing he was saying<p>&gt; He tried again, and again, and again to explain basic concepts to me<p>&gt; I DON’T UNDERSTAND.<p>As a student, understanding terms and basic concepts is <i>your</i> responsibility. The professor and TA&#x27;s are there to enhance and solidify the basic concepts, they&#x27;re not there to explain basic concepts to you over and over again until you get it. That&#x27;s the job of reading and studying. If you don&#x27;t do the reading and study the material you need to know <i>before</i> the class it&#x27;s covered in, then of course you won&#x27;t understand what the professor is on about and of course you&#x27;ll fall behind. You&#x27;re starting from behind and don&#x27;t have any way to catch up.<p>I saw this over and over as both a TA, teacher, and classmate. Lecture is not the time to learn terms and concepts for the first time. Lecture is the time to connect newly learned terms and concepts to your existing knowledge and reinforce and enlighten it. If you get to the class on class instantiation and you don&#x27;t know what a constructor is already then you&#x27;re going to have a bad time--and you should.<p>So you must study beforehand and you just have to study it until you know it. I appreciate that it&#x27;s harder for some than others, and commend the author for aspiring to inspire, but at some point there needs to be some personal responsibility.