Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

Building apps for use in my "Math for Electricians" and "Math for Engineering Tech" courses. Smallish for now, without a lot of gradients, but fun nonetheless! mountcarmelpublishing.com/snowball.html Land of sky-blue waters Joined February 2023

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

4 weeks ago

Here's something to try: I just got back from vacation, far enough north that I had no internet. The fun was around us. But now I followed a link to YouTube, and got hit over the head with an iMac screen full of "HEY! THE FUN IS OVER HERE! NO, HERE!" Talk about two worlds...

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

2 months ago

Somebody please invent a 24-inch iPad that I can place on a podium and project onto a screen. Wait: and some kind of glove (no finger tips) so if the side of my palm hits the screen, nothing opens up.

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

7 months ago

Photo by zlaťáky.cz on Unsplash

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

Who misses the days of big print publishing? You know, when they used to put so much effort into catching all the typos, before going to press...

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

First two app assignments due this term (SOH-CAH-TOA): youtu.be/ksISIx6HbnA

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

Flash-and-Math, eat your heart out :-)

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

Is it just me, or is it a whole lot easier to make typos now that xcode tries to finish all my thoughts for me?

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

I side-load the app onto my device. It works. Wonderful! Time for a break. Then I come back and xcode has new errors for me... what in the world

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

I wonder what's the fastest anyone has gone from idea to App Store?

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

8 months ago

My smallish apps are getting bigger. Now my online students can save their quiz scores to Google Firebase and I can view them from home! But wow, the various tutorials out there were all over the place. I half think I should make my own tutorial... for us "advanced beginners."

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

9 months ago

I seem to be on a run, running into AI errors. Folks, I know AI is fast and fun, but you MUST PROOFREAD! This from the Raisin site:

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

9 months ago

Did you know that Christmas Eve is always on a Sunday? That's what AI wants me to believe (line 2):

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

11 months ago

Somehow, it's hard to believe that a tuna sandwich counts as eating fish

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

11 months ago

Well it's Saturday, and a great day for starting a phasors project using SwiftUI (electrical, not Star Trek). So that's a coil at top, resistor center, capacitor at bottom. Can't wait to see what it looks like when I add the waves/phasors together, making a series RLC circuit!

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

11 months ago

Back in the 80's, the NCTM wrote that all students, however young, should be given calculators -- since it was crucial to avoid creating a society of technological haves and have-nots. Instead, we created a society that believes 1/3 is less 1/4. AI will be worse than that.

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

12 months ago

If an app runs correctly even with seemingly incorrect logic behind it, would postmodern coding theory assert that it's correctly incorrect? Or should I keep looking for the bug?

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Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7

12 months ago

They say a writer should write what they know. But what can AI really know? It's just an algorithm trained to fool people. Yeah, we need more of that.