[Tutor] Volunteer teacher

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:19:37 +0100, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
declaimed the following:

>(*)Actually I did a single-term class in programming in BASIC in the
>early 70s at high school, but the technology meant we didn't go beyond
>sequences, loops and selection. In the mid 80s at University I did a
>full two years of Pascal. (While simultaneously studying Smalltalk
>and C++ having discovered OOP in the famous BYTE magazine article)
>

	Welcome to the club... I needed a final 3 credits for graduation, so
took BASIC in my senior year of college. No effort class -- considering I'd
already used BASIC in the data structures course implementing an assignment
using "hashed head multiply linked lists" (and have never seen such used
any except for the Amiga disk directory/file structure -- hash into the
root directory block to find a pointer to the start of a linked list of
file header blocks [file name, followed by pointers to data blocks and a
pointer to an overflow list of data blocks] and/or directory blocks
[directory name followed by hashed list of pointers to next level of
chains])

	This (BASIC course) was AFTER FORTRAN (-IV), Advanced FORTRAN, Assembly
[sequence A], COBOL, Advanced COBOL, Database [sequence B, Database text
covered Hierarchical, Network, and Relational as theoretical -- subsequent
editions covered Relational, and treated Hierarchical and Network as
historical], the aforesaid data structures, and a language design course.
<G>


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