• jecxjo@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, i did cover the Fortran 95 spec in a weekend, but i was motivated to tutor aerospace engineerings as there were far more females there than in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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      1 year ago

      The point is that learning a spec is not learning how to program in the language, just as learning how a violin works is not learning to play the violin. And writing your first few programs is like learning to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The Happy Farmer on the violin. You’ve kind of learned the violin, but you’re not getting into any professional orchestras.

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        1 year ago

        Oh i know, was joking mostly. At that point i had half a dozen languages under my belt and for tutoring purposes i was good to go.