UCLA Extension classes are supposed to be different. They are taught evenings/weekends by folks working in the field.

I just signed up for a C# class that starts at the end of Sept. The teacher has several certificate descriptions listed after his name, Crystal Developer cert, a couple MS certificates.

Hopefully I'll get something for my $800. I've taken a couple Java classes from the same guy at UCLA before. People either hate him or love him. He's an older guy who obviously has lots of Java experience, so he knows his stuff. But he has no patience for questions like "My homework won't compile, what did I do wrong" or "I don't know how to start the homework assignment".

The people I know who like him are IT professionals. Beginning students hate him.



>My experience is that college classes rarely show how to do something in the real world.
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>Sounds like the class is doing it in an "off the shelf" style. It would be interesting to know what they're using for the text.
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>>That is good to know. They have a new class offered in the fall quarter at UCLA, "Using C# with SQL Server". Unfortunately the sylabus goes into great detail about ado.net, using stored procedures, .net framework etc. But doesn't mention busines objects at all.
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>>It appears texts by folks like Rocky are far better on this topic then classes.