Comments | blagh: Fortran? More like Bore-tran.

blagh

Fortran? More like Bore-tran.

Feb 14, 2009 20:26

News: I am tutoring someone in first-year civil engineering, on their first-year CS course. Can you believe they still teach classes in FORTRAN? I couldn't. It's like, halfway to assembler ( Read more... )

scholarly duties, computery things, plots

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shivi February 15 2009, 05:51:59 UTC

Sounds cool, although I am a bit boggled at the FORTRAN part.

Judging by the tutoring ads I saw at UW, I think it's anywhere for $15-30/hour depending on how awesome you are.

tjernobyl February 15 2009, 06:59:57 UTC

I went to a party a couple months ago, and through my boozy haze I could see someone using a terminal window on their laptop. I investigated, and it turned out that he was coding some sort of physics project in FORTRAN. The libraries are all written for FORTRAN, so they tend to gravitate that way unless they have compelling reasons otherwise.

Back in college, we didn't even get assemblers for the first semester. We had to look up the instructions in a table, find the hex codes for each, and input them manually through buttons soldered onto the motherboard. It was .. a learning experience.

tjernobyl February 15 2009, 07:01:28 UTC

..And I seem to remember $15 an hour when I was tutoring college-level instrumentation and electronics. Might have been more, but it was definitely an integer divisible by 5.