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   >  One of those teachers who make an impression on you was a calculus   
   >  teacher I had in college. He had an interesting approach to come at   
   >  problems from a different perspective to help you understand them.   
      
   >  In the movie "Ender's Game", when Ender says "The Enemy's Gate is   
   >  Always Down" and the perspective changes, I thought of his class.   
      
   >  We were encouraged to buy programmable calculators - the stepwise kind   
   >  where you could automate steps into the calculator as a procedure, then   
   >  enter a series of X and Y values and it would step through them - a   
   >  precursor to graphing calculators, as you'd have to plot them   
   >  yourselves.   
      
   >  The rich kids in the class brought HP 41C calculators. Oh, how I wanted   
   >  one of those! I had to settle for a cheap Casio programmable with 30 or   
   >  so program steps, total.   
      
   >  My professor's opinion was that computers would soon do all of the   
   >  grunt work that mathmeticians did by hand now. With computers, you'd be   
   >  freed to do the creative work and let the computers grind out the   
   >  results.   
      
   >  It struck a chord with me.   
      
   >  A year before, I flunked a senior year high school math class and   
   >  was required to take another course. The only one available mid-year   
   >  was Computer Problem Solving, which inspired me to work with computers.   
      
   >  If I hadn't flunked that class, I would have completely missed the   
   >  experience of the teacher who reinforced the value of computers as   
   >  tools of computation and might not have been as inspired.   
      
   >  Despite years of experience, I still enjoy doing computations and   
   >  turning the calculator upside down to spell 80081E5. I suppose your   
   >  inner child never *really* grows up.   
      
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   The first calc. shown to me was a HP-30 ( 35?) given to an employee of a   
   electronics company.   
   He showed me what all it could do and My Jaw Dropped.   
   Ed   
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