Calculator Wars at your School

[Eddie W. Shore]

(06-19-2021 09:12 PM)floppy Wrote:  I had an HP41CV during Baccalaureat/MathSup/MathSpe: nobody knows it. I was the unicorn. RPN made anybody keeping his fingers out of it (however: I could not use any casio from others.. that was sooo weird with ()= and weird new thinking for me haha). So, war? no. I had the ultimative atom weapon. Nobody else had an idea (and I was not smart enough to use a casio ;-).
Then I moved to big computer systems and other activities like project management. However, I realized my all life how much accountants and engineers have no idea with programming. this is terrible. programming (whatever job you do), make you thinking in repeatable sequences. and thats good for any organization (I would send any beginner to a python course.. in sales or accounting.. or whatever).

I like your idea of sending salespeople and accountants to a Python course. If nothing else, this would break the monotony of the job.

Eddie