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I first seriously(?) learned how to code by finding a used Pascal book and reading it thoroughly. That was some time after getting my first computer and not kno
by waynecolvin 15y ago
I first seriously(?) learned how to code by finding a used Pascal book and reading it thoroughly. That was some time after getting my first computer and not knowing where to find a compiler! (I'm not counting forgotten Logo from summer class long ago or using elaborate triggers in a MUD.) I had serious learning problems getting far past that unguided. Finally learning C from some lecture notes was a growth spurt though I had looked at some C before that. Trying to calculate the fewest coins to add up to a sum and finding optimal new coin took like a couple weeks! LOL
- losethos 15y agoI used to be an annoying customer. If I had an order of $2.56, I might hand them $3.06 cents, so they could give me two quarters. Eventually, it dawned on me that this is rude. Cashiers probably want to zone-out and think about other things. Just give them exact change or whole dollars, but not other amounts. I'm still kinda an ass-hole. I pay in cash. This is hard to remember -- whatever you do, don't change your mind in the middle of an order! That's the worst! ... as in, "Here's $10. No, wait, here's a $5." They will probably think you are trying to con them by confusing you and they might have already selected some bills. God says... C:\TEXT\2CITIES2.TXT ow. That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now. He could not but admit to himself that he might not have made this journey, if he could have foreseen the events of a few days. And yet his misgivings were not so dark as, imagined by the light of this later time, they would appear. Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope. The horrible massacre, days and nights long, which, with