Oracle Tutoring, Campbell River, BC
(250) 203-6544 (text) or (250) 830-0295 (talk)
Self-tutoring about (Li|U)nix: the tutor mentions another neat command. The “dot” is just a period. A simple example of the dot command is . file0 If file0 contains Unix commands, they will be executed. Interestingly, with the dot command, file0 …
Self-tutoring about Linux: the tutor mentions its neat tr command. tr target replacement is one form of tr, with input being piped to it or redirected to it. For instance, tr “8” “9” < infile.txt will display the file infile.txt …
Self-tutoring about people and events of the past: the tutor reflects…. At my school grades 4-7, the gym was definitely central. Sports events were popular, and of course every kid had to take PE class, athletic or not. I wasn’t …
Self-tutoring about biology: the tutor mentions the term frugivorous. frugivorous: having a diet mainly of fruit. Source: merriam-webster.com
Tutoring English, new words are always interesting. The tutor mentions inveigh. inveigh: to strongly disapprove or condemn. Source: Gilmour, Lorna (editor). Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.
Self-tutoring about using Visual Studio 2019 with .net Core: the tutor mentions a problem he ran into and what fixed it. I tried scaffolding but it wasn’t working. Then I made a new project. This time, on the “Create a …
Self-tutoring about regular expressions: the tutor mentions a possible misstep. It’s true that, typically, in regex, ^ means beginning and $ means end – particularly outside of []. Consider the string s1: “Hello there Smedley!” The pattern ^there$ won’t find …
Self-tutoring about keyboard shortcuts: the tutor mentions PrintScreen. Yesterday I watched someone press the “Prt Scr” (PrintScreen) key, expecting the printer to start up to produce a screenshot. It didn’t quite work out that way. In fact, though, pressing the …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor mentions a favourite, the varied thrush. I’ve written a couple of posts about varied thrush, a year-round resident on Vancouver Island. Possibly similar to the Steller’s jay, the varied thrush is more visible certain times …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor mentions the “sleep” function. With ever more features available from various keys and combinations, it seems easy to trigger one without meaning to. I’ve triggered “sleep” on this Windows 10 computer a few …