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August 26, 2003
This & That
---The 15th Annual Mule Jump is set for Oct. 11th in beautiful Pea Ridge...mark your calendars now. We went last year more or less as a joke and had a surprisingly good time....we're planning to take Bubs this year.
--NWACC, the little community college which I attend, reports that enrollment is up 20%....unfortunately parking spaces, as I can attest, are not. My instructor said yesterday that the administration claimed that there were not more students enrolled than there were parking spaces. She wasn't buying that either, but she did say the administration had converted 20 faculty spaces into student spaces over the summer....which is in my experience an unusual action for college administration.
--Speaking of classes, I start my very first ever programming class today--Beginning BASIC. I'm kinda excited about that. I was poking about online last night and ran across this site, followed a link to an article he'd written about how to be a hacker, and found his recommendation that Python was a good beginning programming language for neophytes like me who have very little programming experience. What do youse guys think? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by Rita at August 26, 2003 07:35 AM