Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : Adept
Date : Wed Feb 07 2024 16:29:45

 DW>  pF> Office Politics 101. Now, that would be a valuable class!
 DW> 
 DW> As vaulable as Data Structures, FORTRAN and C, that's for sure.

Teaching social skills to a nerdy crowd is probably hard work, too, so good teachers there would be _invaluable_.

But the comment on Data Structures reminds me how I had a hard time with the class the first time, and dropped out of CS soon after, mostly feeling as though it wasn't my people, for whatever reason. But also just being awful at the math classes (not because I couldn't understand it; because I've never been good at _studying_.)

But the second time through? It was fun! Just kinda neat to see how the various things fit together.

Kind of like how I enjoy explaining a matrix sort, because it's something I use in daily life, but people don't understand. _Especially_ when getting away from base 10.

But the concept is really cool, as you can take a stack of stickers for a sticker album, and sort them touching each sticker exactly three times.

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