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Gleecap: S3E10 – Yes/No

There was so much ground covered in this episode that I am in a bit of disbelief that it was all done in 43 minutes and 21 seconds. There was: The slightly ludicrous thing between Mercedes and Sam got an upgrade to quite ludicrous. I mean, Mercedes is a world-class diva and all but fat [...]

Quick F# Reference Guide

My notes for Chapters 1-8 out of 17. Keywords let mutable e.g.: let mutable y=9; y<-10 Functions Built-In: printfn (use printfn “%f” [float] to display floats), List.map (apply a function on each item of a list, returning a list), List.exists (does a given Boolean function return true for any element in the list?), List.findIndex (index of first element for [...]

The Pedagogy of Programming for Preteens

As I have blogged before, my attempt to get my sister into programming is underway. My main problem is I am an impatient teacher and impatient = horrible. Thus far, throwing her into the shallow end of the adult pool, i.e. giving her the best/easiest C# book I’ve found, has not worked. Once comprehension stops, [...]

On The Email Spam Industry

A thought for today: i am usually more openly right wing than people care to admit, but i will suspend all my principles and objections in the case of the email spam industry: All this churning out of email with no hope of ever getting a cent from anyone with any brains, taking up resources [...]

Excel VBA Quick Reference 1

For my future use.vbautilities