Well that's just sad. I'm glad to say that I haven't had the same experience.

You are correct. He has completed 3 semesters.

Well, now you're just opening up a big can of worms! LOL. I'll just say that I was not in charge of the selection of the student.

the programming language? No, the application was written before I arrived here.

Thanks, that does help. As this is the first student I've had it's been a learning experience for everyone. One of the things that I will definitely take away from this experience is the need to touch bases more frequently and set clear expectations. I did give him some resources that I had found useful and time with the application, but perhaps I should have spent more time giving him an overview of the application and walking him through the portion that he was expected to work on.

I should clarify that he is still in school. In his second year. He's in a co-op program which means that they alternate semesters between being in the classroom and being on a work placement.

:laugh: It would undoubtedly have been easier to move from Java to C#. Perhaps I should have asked him to re-write the thing in C#? It's a horrible old application anyhow...

My first co-op student is wrapping up his placement this week and he made a comment that surprised me. At school he's been working almost exclusively I guess in Java and when he came here he was assigned to work on a VB.Net application. I gave him some time and told him to familiarize himself with the project but I didn't think it would be a difficult move to go from Java to VB - after all, an If statement is still an If statement, right? But today we sat down and had a little chat and he told me that he had felt overwhelmed by the experience, so now I'm wondering, if I get another student for whom the programming language is unfamiliar what can I do to ease the transition for him/her?

No, I have too many other things to do at home. However, if I didn't code at work I would definitely code at home. Also, if disaster struck and I had to find another job where I was sitting a computer but not coding I think I would find a way to code there too.

Damn! What was I thinking!

Yesterday I walked in to work and found out that I had been given a new laptop. Yay! Early Christmas! I ripped it out of the box and started setting it up, only to have it ripped away from me about an hour later and reallocated to someone else by the end of the day. :doh:

http://xkcd.com/323/[^]