On 24 Apr 2025 at 08:19p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

Accession wrote to StormTrooper <=-

I've said it before - the two classes I regret not taking in high school were auto shop and typing.

I'm surprised that the kids in auto shop got to use the facilities
outside of class and on their own cars. Nowadays, that would be a liability nightmare.

When I was in HS, shop class was about as dated as computer programming. I mean, I could learn to fix brakes or clean a carburetor in shop class, but what good is that skill now? I learned COBOL and FORTRAN in HS. YOU of all people know how dated that skill is now.

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Gryphon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

On 24 Apr 2025 at 08:19p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

Accession wrote to StormTrooper <=-

I've said it before - the two classes I regret not taking in high school were auto shop and typing.

I took typing, but not shop class... Two older brothers and a dad, but
they didn't teach me anything. :-) Had to learn it all after I got
older and YouTube came along. :-)

I'm surprised that the kids in auto shop got to use the facilities
outside of class and on their own cars. Nowadays, that would be a liability nightmare.

When I was young, not only did they work on their own cars, but the
pickups were just as likely to have a gun rack in the back window.

When I was in HS, shop class was about as dated as computer
programming. I mean, I could learn to fix brakes or clean a carburetor
in shop class, but what good is that skill now? I learned COBOL and FORTRAN in HS. YOU of all people know how dated that skill is now.

LOL



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Gryphon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

When I was in HS, shop class was about as dated as computer
programming. I mean, I could learn to fix brakes or clean a carburetor
in shop class, but what good is that skill now? I learned COBOL and FORTRAN in HS. YOU of all people know how dated that skill is now.

You're learning the basics of mechanics and structured programming.
While COBOL jobs only seem to come up in the public sector or on flag
days like Y2K, you're still learning how to think like a computer.

I wonder how autoshop would go nowadays, if they even teach it any more.
I'd like to teach kids how to read and OBD reader and decipher the
causes of error codes, learn about maintenance schedules, basic
maintenance... The days of rebuilding the top end of a Chevy V-8 in your off-hours are probably long gone.



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