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A personal post from Graham Ellis This is page http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1862_Rem ... units.html Our email: info@wellho.net • Phone: 01144 1225 708225 |
| For 2023 - we are now fully retired from IT training. We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk. Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active! I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here)) |
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Remember your units   I remember one of my maths teachers at school - a certain Mr Shaftesbury - who despaired of me. I think he was the one who told my parents I would never be able to do even simple arithmetic. I was reminded of him a couple of hours ago when our order for 4 carrots turned up as 4 kilograms of carrots... for he was always one to mark down answers, quite dramatically, if you failed to show your workings as to how you got to an answer, or you failed to state the units. The workings - well .. "it's obvious" were often my words (and it was to me), but in hindsight his lesson on stating the units - as has been shown by today's experience - was clearly well thought through and well intended. Thinking back, I suspect that Mr Shaftesbury had me down as a cheat when I provided just the nubs of the answer - but in fact that wasn't the case. It was always somewhat more important to me to have the answer than to be too bothered by how I reached it, and it was somewhat more important to me to spend my time doing other things and leaving mey homework to be rushed (and so looking distinctly un-neat) on my way in to school. (written 2008-10-31, updated 2008-11-02) Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles Z801 - Pettifog[52] International awareness - (2004-09-17) [87] Too sittings - (2004-10-13) [90] Rude old people - (2004-10-16) [323] 1 in 48 steel - (2005-05-24) [439] You cant - (2005-09-08) [471] And it gets even better - (2005-10-21) [478] Watch what you wear - (2005-10-26) [519] New Road - (2005-12-06) [562] Smoke and mirrors - (2006-01-12) [600] It costs nothing to say THANK YOU - (2006-02-11) [638] A pile of sand? Where do we stand? - (2006-03-08) [783] Good follow up ... my thanks - (2006-06-28) [791] Strange housewarming - (2006-07-03) [815] Time trickles like water through a sieve - (2006-07-27) [826] Fighting illegal net use by imposing download limits - (2006-08-09) [1170] Smoking, or no? The law insists we spell out the obvious - (2007-05-01) [1337] A series of tyre damages - (2007-09-08) [1349] Cash is not an acceptable way of paying - (2007-09-13) [1741] Age Concern - (2008-08-07) [1783] Think before you send - (2008-09-02) [1839] Job application - (2008-10-13) [1972] Pettifog and forum boards away from public view - (2009-01-03) [2122] Commission Creep - (2009-04-08) [2193] Excellent product, excruciating customer service. 3 Mobile Broadband - (2009-05-21) [2625] Both feet on the same pavement - (2010-02-05) [2761] A small business, facing a big government questionnaire - (2010-05-12) [2788] Cost of Sales - (2010-06-01) [2937] The cat in the dustbin - (2010-08-27) [2944] What others cannot do in 10 months takes Virgin 10 minutes - (2010-09-03) [3013] Audio equipment - (2010-10-24) [3030] Liquorice allsorts and Dolly Mixtures - (2010-11-05) [3084] Can you trust the big brand names? - (2010-12-12) [3302] Are you a half full or half empty person? - (2011-05-25) [3749] Removal of water safety equipment, and how to use a lifesaver ring - (2012-06-04) [3835] The Information age - not yet truly with us? - (2012-08-12) [3900] The Xxxxx Guest House in Xxxxxxxxxxx - my stay reviewed - (2012-10-20) [4140] Riots in Melksham - (2013-07-13) [4167] The important customers are the majority, not the celebrity - (2013-09-08) [4282] On tipping - and the expectation of a tip - (2014-07-10) [4304] Please do not ask me to be the chair! - (2014-09-25) [4354] Wiltshire Police - assuming someone is guilty just on the say-so of a member of the public? - (2014-12-16) [4630] The story behind the bus cuts, and what they could mean - (2016-01-24) [4651] Pressure selling in the fire safety business - (2016-02-19) [4720] Celebrating our diversity rather than discriminating for it - (2016-11-02)
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