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To: Snowybear; mairdie

I can code in AppleBasic :)

That’s the only official class I ever took. Was in HS in the mornings before classes for 6 weeks or so. It was fun I suppose.

I barely knew enough Basic to get by in my required CompSci class my Freshmen year in college.

I wish I had known more as it would have helped greatly in my Physics major and later in life.

Now I’m happy to be considered computer literate because I’m able to do Vlookup and pivot tables in Excel (LOL)


523 posted on 12/28/2019 9:12:57 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: reed13k

>>Basic...Physics major

Physics/Art History major here.

First book I ever wrote was a Basic manual for the college where I took my first masters. Turned a 1 year degree into 3 or 4 by doing a thesis to design a Backus Reduction Language into something you could teach grammar school kids. What a DISASTER! By 6th grade, you needed a PhD to code it.

My second masters was in computers, but I couldn’t force myself to take the PhD exam in languages after the PhD classes. Total exam terror. And I was working in that field at the time!


525 posted on 12/28/2019 9:17:58 PM PST by mairdie (Hit Me With Your Best Shot - https://youtu.be/eQG6liOA4wM)
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