In English language punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and, or, or nor) in a series of three or more terms. In programming, the way we group things profoundly affects what a program communicates to the computer. InContinue reading “Computer Programmer’s Perspective on The Oxford Comma”
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From Classrooms to Mainframes
In 1998, I was teaching music at two elementary schools in Moore, Oklahoma; one in the morning, the other in the afternoon. I had wanted to be a high school choir director coming out of college, but there were no high school positions in central Oklahoma. I settled for elementary music. I had a lotContinue reading “From Classrooms to Mainframes”
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