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My unsuccessful trial to help some student with her homework. Three students with one assignment, including input data handling, calculation and output. One student for every task. She was in the middle.
Me: Let's produce some data and write a program that makes required calculations.
She: I am not supposed to do this. I need only calculations.
Me: How can we make calculations without data?
She: Just show how to do this.
Me: I don't know how to write a program without running it.
She didn't answer. Probably I need to change my approach...
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Back when I started to learn to code, I was the only one in my immediate family who owned a computer, so I had nobody to go to, the web was still at least a decade away, and I could barely read the English user manual that came with it.
The way I see it, if someone wants to learn, I'm not here to provide shortcuts. They already have a lot of advantages I never got.
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Miss half a dozen balls, you see? (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Miss half a dozen balls, you see? (8)
Miss = definition
half a dozen balls, = over
you see? = look Overlook
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And you are up tomorrow! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That's what I got too. Nicely done!
Fortunately back in my college days a group of us formed a "club" called The BYCC (The Bemidji Yacht and Cricket Club). We learned the rules for cricket - a not very well known game in the US - with the intention of actually playing a game as an excuse to have a drinking party. We never did play that game. As it turns out the BYCC was really just a pretensious sounding name - and in college who needed an excuse to drink? But, without having studied the game some 40 years ago I never would have related 6 balls to an "over". Funny how silly trivia detritus becomes useful, eh?
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Here in the UK, cricket was the summer sport played at my school. I didn't know the rules. Every Tuesday afternoon I'd ask the PE teacher to explain the rules. Every week he laughed and said "everyone knows how to play cricket".
I still haven't the faintest idea what the rules are, or even what the objective is. I was sitting on a village green last week just enjoying life, with a match going on. All the players were wearing the same kit so no idea who was on what side. Suddenly, out of the blue, they all just suddenly applauded, went off the pitch and that was the end. No idea who won, even though there were loads of numbers on the scoreboard.
What's this got to do with today's clue? I'm assuming it's cricket related...?
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In cricket, an "over" is 6 deliveries of the ball by the bowler to the batsman. They're actually trying to throw the ball past the batsman to knock the stumps (bails) off the wicket to get him out (ineligible to score).
So the "over" in today's CCC answer is indeed cricket related. At least as far as this person - who has never played (or even watched) a game - understands it. 
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All I know of cricket is that wickets are sticky. (Whatever that means...)
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The wicket is the area around the stumps (3 small posts set in a line). The batsman protects them from being hit by the ball thrown by the bowler. When the wicket gets wet, say from rain, it is called sticky. The ball bounces differently and it become more difficult for the batsman. Thus, a sticky wicket is a difficult situation.
I hope you realize you're getting your information from someone who looked into the game over 40 years ago and has never played, or even watched, a game of cricket. So take these nuggets of cricket knowledge for what they're worth.
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Thank you for the explanation.
So it looks like you went to Bemidji State in MN? Beautiful area!
My youngest sister attended there in the mid 80's. I attended St. Cloud State in the late 70's.
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I did indeed go to Bemidji State, from 76-80. I was born and raised in Bemidji and in fact my mother, sister and brother still live there. It was Bemidji State College when I started but it joined the university system around 1978. So officially I have a BS degree from BSU. 
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Univac 1106 for assembler (and COBOL perhaps) with the actual hardware in Mankato and your data center having IBM 80 column card punch machines, a card reader, and a noisy green bar 132 column "high speed" printer?
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Ding! Ding! On the nose!
We had IBM 026 and 029 card punch machines. We turned our card decks into the operations center where students read/ran them, returning the card deck wrapped in greenbar about an hour or two later. A few of us befriended a couple of the operators (bribing them with 🍺 actually) to get our decks jumped to the front of the line.
We would also log (dial) into the MECC or MERITS systems (also in Mankato) for Basic and Pascal programming. I believe that was a CDC Cyber-70 series mainframe. I think we actually did our assembly programming on these as well. Oh man, those 330 BAUD deckwriters were screaming fast machines I tell you what! 
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So when is someone going to come up with an Agile methodology based on cricket terminology?
It might help left ponders learn more cricket terms…
Over == sprint, must always include at least six user stories
Test match == epic
Wicket keeper(?) == scrum master
Bowler == product owner
Batsman == developer
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Best swap I ever made!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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He's probably going to yell at you in Porschuguese.
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Now you can't drive him nuts. On second thought now you can drive him nuts. As the saying goes "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." Only a few minutes ago I learned why it is called 911. It is because 901 was taken. - Happy Motoring
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"It is cheaper to save the world than it is to ruin it."
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Do you mean you swapped your husband for a Porsche 911?
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That's the joke, yes
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah, but now do you have a source of gas?
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No, she swapped him for the car ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It has that whole "Gift of the magi" feel to it.
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I knew a guy who owned a Porsche, corrected you when you said Porsche instead of "Porsje", and when a Porsche drove by he went to the window to look at it.
We were in the office and our neighbor owned a Porsche, which we saw when he opened his garage that one time, guy went over to talk to him about Porsches immediately.
I wouldn't be surprised if the guy really traded his wife for a Porsche 
Funny thing, the son of someone at the office dropped by once in a while and drove a sporty Mazda.
One time he hit the Porsche when he tried to park his car 
Small dent, I think it cost him a month's salary (of a student) to get it fixed (he was insured, as that's obligated by law over here, but I think he did this one outside of his insurance to keep his costs low).
The Porsche-guy was all like "some stuck-up youngster want to drive a fast car, well now he's got to pay."
The Mazda-guy was a really nice dude though, came in apologizing thousands of times, knowing how fond this guy was of his Porsche.
Of all the cars he could've hit...
Fun stuff
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