I'm really going to hate it when I start Console Development, I don't want to do C, I want my classes!!!  I've seen people try to make C sort of behave like C++(See Neverwinter Script) and to be honest, most of the time it just looks bad.  Full Sail actually did a great job of teaching C and did it well in a month.  We actually covered pointers, arrays, structures, and loops before we even coved conditional (if/else/else if) statements.  Pointers at the start seem unimportant, then once you start learning some of the applications for them, you may fall in love with them, or see them as completely evil.  Later on when you do ADT(Abstract Data Types), you'll learn to appriciate and even like them.  Full Sail does a great job of teaching because they assume you know absofuckinglutely nothing about programming when you walk into the C++ class.  And in the usual fast-paced way, they thoroughly teach you how to work with everything. 

Now moving on to C++ at first seems no big deal.  Classes at first really don't sound like they're really important.  It's when you start doing structured programming and you can take advantage of classes that they become a godsend.

I remember you telling me your Data Structures teacher taught with party tricks, well thankfully ours didn't.  So if you want to learn them, come over here Reno .

Here here! Can't stand the stuff! The drawing style is just.. eurgh! Long live dark art, that's what i say!

I read an article about Full Sail in Game Developer the other day, sounds like a really interesting teaching style. You get to choose ALL of your modules over there don't you, and it only lasts 2 years right? It certainly sounds pretty intensive stuff - the article said that its 8 hours a day minimum or something, and one woman there once had a class that finished at 1am

The big problem for me with programming is that they don't teach you using interesting tasks. Our coursework for programming last semester was to make a program to figure out all of the possible, legal board positions in a game of noughts and crosses - dull! It doesn't help that they are normally short enough programs that you can simply leave them to the last couple of days and still pass with flying colours. In the first programming coursework I got a 1 (top grade) even though I did it the night before it was due in and I'd never touched programming before.

We have console development this semester, not too sure what to expect from it to be honest. Hell, I don't even know if they mean console as in playstation, or console as in a windows console. Maybe I should do a little more research