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Message: <blockquote data-quote="piperbarb" data-source="post: 132822" data-attributes="member: 12214"><p>When I took my first computer programming course in college, I learned APL & PL/I (yeah, IBM was just down the road, and they supplied the computers free to the university).  When I took physical chemistry lab, the professor would not let me use the computer to plot my data and generate graphs.  He said it wasn't fair to the other students who had to plot hundreds of points by hand.  Now, students do not even know how to do a simple bar graph most of the time.  I always hate having to teach them how to graph, something they are supposed to already know.  Wait, they don't have to, they can just use their graphing calculators!!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>