Finally, an incentive to go to lectures.

Hi all,

I met most of you at this week’s first lecture for SA0731a XHTML & CSS. In fact, I met 48 of you, which is 70% of the class. You learnt much about the demise of the dinosaurs.

What of the other 21 folk? The 30% of the class that didn’t make it to the first lecture? Hrmn…not a good start for them. Have they already dropped out? Are they, even now, sunning themselves on a tropical beach as we freeze our butts off in the north?

So - here’s the deal. If lecture attendance ever goes above 85%, I’ll buy you all a chocolate bar. (I have a stash of them in my office fridge, next to the beers, and the head of that decapitated third year that kept using <blink> and <marquee>.) That’s 59 of you attending, and 10 missing. I figure my chocolate’s safe.

See you in the labs,

Linton

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2 Responses to “Finally, an incentive to go to lectures.”

Mica | January 24th, 2008 at 2:09 am

Is this seriously an e-mail from a prof? Wow, either school’s become a lot cooler since I graduated or this is one really fun teacher.

Craig | January 24th, 2008 at 2:32 am

He’s one of the funny ones, but the week afterwards he suddenly got a lot more serious after the percentage of people turning up went down after he sent it.

He’s still pretty cool though, including acting pretty dumb in front of every computing student, looking at the monitor, and asking “what’s that?” to everything. Kinda wierd, but a lot more interesting than hearing a lecturer monologue the entire time.

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