Subj : smartphone for ui dif
To   : phigan
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Dec 08 2025 07:53:15

  Re: smartphone for ui dif
  By: phigan to Accession on Mon Dec 08 2025 02:27 am

 >> I'm not sure how they do it in the inner cities, but out here in the
 >> suburbs there is all of that. My kids' high school has woodworking,
 >> metals/welding,

 ph> Yeah the school over here, which isn't hoity toity rich but isn't poor
 ph> either, offers some kind of programming class still. Probably Python. It
 ph> has a "computer basics" course requirement, though, that you can't test
 ph> out of. So, you have to go through remedial BS, and then you can program.
 ph> Pretty lame.

That's a bit lame about the computer basics class..

During my junior or senior year in high school (1997 or 1998), for an elective, I took the computer programming class they were offering; I was hoping they would be teaching C++ or something, but they were teaching BASIC.  Also, they were using a textbook from around 1978 at the time, which was pretty old even then.  And they were using PCs with DOS, and the instructor was having us use Microsoft's QBASIC, I believe.

Nightfox

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