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I completed my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba in 1976. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development…
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 | I have never had any success dealing with a chatbot so the first thing I type is "speak to an agent". |
| | Astrology is BS. The only reasons to consult an astrologist are: 1. You want bad advice 2. You have too much money and you want to throw some away If #2, consider donating to an animal shelter instead. |
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| | Without knowing what opportunities are available for each, would you be happier building the tools, or using them? In both cases you'll need the same core skill set. In my case I found it much more fulfilling to build the tools. |
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 | My biggest fear is an expansion of misinformation to the extent that we will not be able to trust that anything we see, hear, or read will have any basis in reality.  |
| | Never mind the robots. They've been promising me flying cars since 1950. Where is my flying car?  |
 | I developed a Sudoku app in Python and doing it without using OOP would have been torturous. Using wxPython without OOP would be near impossible. |
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 | Welcome to Daniweb. Do you have any particular areas of comp sci that interest you especially? |
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 | You might try [spin-rite](https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm) |
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| | Pinky swear? |
| | Depending on the age of the child, Logo is also a decent way to introduce programming. Kids are more visually oriented. They want to see the computer doing more than just printing words or numbers on a screen. Logo allows them to write simple programs to control a digital turtle … |