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At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964, in the basement of College Hall, Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals. When they both got back correct answers to their simple programs, time-sharing and BASIC were born. Those innovations made computing accessible to all Dartmouth students and faculty, and soon after, to people across the nation and the world.
Dartmouth's BASIC at 50 anniversary celebration was held yesterday, which included the public premier of a documentary on the history and impact of BASIC.
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(Score: 2) by fliptop on Thursday May 01 2014, @12:54PM
Not gonna happen, there's too many people who are incapable of doing this. I once worked w/ a guy who had a degree in mathematics. He was a terrible programmer, couldn't make his way past an array.
Logic is not something everyone "gets." To most it's boring, like History and English classes were to me.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday May 01 2014, @02:24PM
Logic is not something everyone "gets." To most it's boring, like History and English classes were to me.
There's no such thing as a boring class, only a boring teacher. I was bored with history in public school, but both of my college history classes were fascinating.
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(Score: 1) by NigelO on Thursday May 01 2014, @05:26PM
Maybe it was you that changed between public school and college, and that's why it became interesting to you?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday May 01 2014, @06:22PM
Exactly. A private school might have had interesting teachers.
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday May 01 2014, @06:58PM
There is no such thing as a boring teacher, only bored students, who usually are boring people, and who since they are boring and so bored, think the teacher is boring, and if the student if boring enough, they can even make the subject matter boring. Whether a school is public or private makes no difference in this, except that higher tuition tends to weed out some of the more boring students.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday May 01 2014, @11:03PM
Spoken as if by a boring teacher. Public school teachers often aren't teaching from their own fields. Your math teacher could have been a journalism major, the science teacher an art major. They're not excited by what they're teaching, so of course their students won't be.
It is the teachers JOB to not bore the students, but to interest them, stir their curiosity. The students have no such mandate. Your comment sounds like a boring teacher's attempt at an excuse for being a bore.
Bored people aren't boring, boring people cause people to be bored.
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