Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

2022-12-24 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
Steve does a nice job of defending the status quo, but I’m eager to move beyond that. I think it’s important to realize that the term “programming” actually has two distinct meanings, and one is always implied — that’s the one I’m more focused on when I criticizing the use of imperative program

Re: touch pad isn't working correctly.

2022-12-24 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
weird I ran synclient again and it works now On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 8:08 PM Michael wrote: > My touchpad is detected (scroll up/down works) but touch-click does not > work. In my search I found a solution but it did not work with the > following error: > > $ synclient tapbutton1=1 > Command

touch pad isn't working correctly.

2022-12-24 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
My touchpad is detected (scroll up/down works) but touch-click does not work. In my search I found a solution but it did not work with the following error: $ synclient tapbutton1=1 Command 'synclient' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Do you want t

Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

2022-12-24 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:51:44 + (UTC) >But what have we done for ourselves? We >still use imperative languages to write code line-by-line, they are >subject to the same types of errors, debugging works the same way >(well, we didn’t have debuggers until the

Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

2022-12-24 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
I was in Advanced Analysis and Calculus my Senior year in high school, and we used a Calculus book that they used at Phx College. It was a very rigorous math program, as we proved everything starting at the Limit Theorem. We only covered material in one semester that got thru derivatives. At PC,

Re: 4-year Programing and Analytics degree from Mesa CC

2022-12-24 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
You make a lot of good points David. Can we agree there are three types of degrees? 1) Non technical such as English. 2) Somewhat Technical such as MIS. 3) Engineering/Computer Science/Math or highly technical degrees. At the UofA they did not offer a more technical/computer science degree un