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Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?

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Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
Date	2016-04-16 10:03 +0000
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References	(7 earlier) <dn5e4gFchdrU1@mid.individual.net> <MPG.317751437839b71198a0c5@news.eternal-september.org> <proto-F451EE.11003415042016@news.panix.com> <558344898.482428930.549633.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <slrnnh3p87.8p5.plan.b@ID-309335.user.uni-berlin.de>

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On 2016-04-16, Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:05:59 -0400, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> wrote:
>>> In article <MPG.317751437839b71198a0c5@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>>  "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> No, helicopter parenting and parental fear of the big bad world does 
>>>> that.  I suspect that in the modern world my parents would have been 
>>>> arrested for letting me do the sorts of things that I and my friends 
>>>> did.  I suspect that if they knew, _they_ would have been horrified.
>>> 
>>> Good thing they didn't find out then. Small children need to do things
>>> that would horrify there parents for normal development. Many adults
>>> completely forget their childhood, apparently.
>>> 
>>
>> I Remember well, I often marvel that I'm still alive, etc.
>>
>
> We were discussing this in the pub a while back...most of the things
> we did as kids/teenagers are now illegal* or so bound by regulations as
> to be not worth doing :-)
>
> *  Many were illegal then, such as putting a .303 round in a knot-hole
> in a fence and hitting the primer with a hammer and nail!  Satisfying
> bang but the bullet didn't travel far.
>

One thing that I learned about that. A catridge in a gun is activated, 
the ffirst thng happens is that the catridge ssprings out to grip 
the chamber the bullet enters the barrel. That means that if the bullet
is beeing held by the fingers, the fingers are blown off first, then the bullet
pops away.

Case A. You have a shotgun. fire it at something, slight `ping',
 nothing happens.   What do you do next.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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