<p>not many people know about misc.market</p>
<p>the idea behind it has grown a little though</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://miscmarket.org/]MiscMarket[/url”>http://miscmarket.org/]MiscMarket[/url</a>]</p>
<p>That’s actually kind of sad. It Computer Skills Workshop they actually taught everyone how to sign up, so pretty much everyone wound up being on it.</p>
<p>Was totally great for buying textbooks for really cheap, too. :(</p>
<p>Computing @ Carnegie Mellon is now a joke and takes about an hour to complete - it’s an online course that teaches only the shallowest material and you don’t have to go to class. (I know this because I stealthily avoided taking it freshman year, when it was a sit-in class format.)</p>
<p>My freshman year they also taught you how to make your own website and some basic HTML. Now they don’t even do that much.</p>
<p>Dang, that’s a bit of a shame. Back when I was there ::waves cane:: it was a class that met for an hour a week for half a term, and they went over basic excel stuff, some Unix commands, computer ethics, and how to torrent stuff without getting caught.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what it was for my freshman year, minus the torrenting and the excel and plus web dev. </p>
<p>Not being forced to go to class to learn basic computer skills has its perks, though. I know some of the C@CM student instructors were whining that they didn’t enjoy teaching the course as an online course anymore, and they were considering making it a sit-in class again. Which I don’t understand – it’s 80% useless material, twice as long as it needs to be, and not a single C@CM student actually wants to be there. How do you enjoy teaching something like that?</p>