This is just here to differentiate between Notebook and Blog posts.
I’ve always wondered why “hello world” is always the first print statement people are taught to write when learning to code. The 2 editions of C++ I had to fork over $200 for because the chapter quizzes changed (not any of the content, just the fsking quizzes that were part of the course grade) had the “print out ‘hello world'” spiel at the front. So did the PHP and VB books I… still have somewhere?
Not that you really needed a book to learn VB. But damn if you didn’t need to buy that fsking book anyway, ’cause the teacher wrote it. Or was banging the person who wrote it. Or wanted to bang the person who wrote it. Or wanted tenure from the person who wrote it.
99.9% of the time though, the prof was the one who, at minimum, co-authored it.
Damn, but I should get into the textbook racket.
The only textbook that was ever worth shit was my astronomy one, that that’s because I love pictures of space.
Hello JWST!