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How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops?
DonLab writes "I was a proficient software engineer in the 1980s, writing hundreds of thousands of lines of ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal programs, as well as working in 370 and 8080 assembly language & pre-relational DBMS systems. My hands-on programming career ended when I became a freelance analyst and designer, ultimately retiring young in the early '90s. Now I'd like to reenter the field, but I'm finding that I know nothing about today's post-C languages, programming tools, and computing environments. I wouldn't know where to start learning C++, PHP, Java, HTML5, or PERL, much less how to choose one over the other for a particular application. Can I be the only pre-GUI software designer or hobbyist searching for a way to update his skills for Windows, iOS, or Android?"
Don't forget to B#.
Do you get your jokes right.
It's A flat minor.
You get it when you drop a piano down a mine shaft....
...(although a mainframe would do two).
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
I was going to say Fight Club, but I guess learning a new language would work too.
B# does exist, depending what key the music is in, it can be better to have a B# then a C natural when notating
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It's good to B-natural AND B-sharp in interviews.
Doesn't sound harmonious, but try it and C if it falls flat.
That's because B# and C are enharmonic, dufus...just as Db major and C# major are enharmonic.
If you don't know your scales, don't bother commenting on musical topics. KTHXBYE.
Still confused? B# is used so that each note name appears only once in the scale.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Heh, if you hit the wrong note, we'll all "B flat!"
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