I have to agree with Iain, I'm on work experience, on my holidays from uni, and it's really good to do some proper, useful programming. They've just finished teaching us Pascal which I have to say sucked mightily, and now they've moved on to C. Not C++, C. Our Systems Analysis & Design lecturer said it was like teaching us Anglo-Saxan

Not only that, but all the while people were whining about them going too fast, when they were still on the very basics. There was me with a couple years experience in simple-ish VB, trying not to fall asleep.

Anyway, rant over point is I agree, it's nice to do something for real instead of writing a program to print a triangle of stars or something.