I'm so glad I'm not a teacher - or at least a school teacher or University lecturer. For in these jobs, I feel that I would be spending far more of my time preparing my students to pass exams than I would spend preparing them for what life was going to bring them beyond the educational establishment ....
Almost every program you write, in any language, will have repeating code in it in the form of a loop. Programs without loops are limited to really simple "read a piece of data, calculate on it and print a result" tasks, and ever with them there will be loops within the function calls that you make ....
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We could achieve so much more in our town and area with a bit more joined up thinking. Save money, save hassle too. That's noy to say that we don't achieve a lot already; ....
Here's a picture that I took yesterday evening ... I stopped and looked over a hedge and in place of fields that had previously been there ...
... a further view, and perhaps a more generous clue
This is the new marina under construction at Foxhangers, with moorings for up to 250 boats. Onc ....
We had a fantastic day out in Weymouth - a train that was "nearly every seat taken" by the time it got to Westbury on the way down, a great time had by all in Weymouth, and a good ride back in the evening. In fact we got a real holiday atmosphere, with a number of people coming for their second ti ....
A few years ago, a visitor stood in our kitchen at home and told me that "running your own business from home's not an option - it never works". She was new to the UK, having moved here from a different part of the world to get married to the love of her life who was British, and seeking suggestion ....
Pieces of program code ... subroutines, functions, macros, procedures, user commands, methods ... are stored with a name, and within many programming languages are actually stored in the same memory area and under the same structure as other named values - variables. This means that you can pass in ....
When a new product is brought to market, there will be a few people who buy it straight away - the latent market that has just been waiting for that product. Then there may be a bit of a surge as they tell their friends, before sales drop off to a more steady state level. It can be difficult to ju ....
Some things have a natural concept of addition. And of multiplication.
You can add numbers - 5 + 7 gives 12. You can add strings of text - "Hello " + "World" = "Hello World". You can add day trippers to a train and get a busier train (and add too many and you'll get an overcrowded unhappy train, ....
I first walked the Kennet and Avon canal from Pewsey to Bedwyn in the early 1970s ... in those days I lived in Kent, and travelled down on the only morning train to call at Pewsey, picking up a two hourly stopper back from Bedwyn later in the day. And in those days, the canal was weed infested, th ....