Word: hacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Happy Hacker is perplexed by something that he sees on campus--students spending me time on sports teams, student groups and in student-produced shows than on then school work. Why spend $16,000 a year to major in protesting racists or whacking a puck (and members of the opposite team) around...
After a preliminary investigation, the Happy Hacker has determined that students are not interested enough in academics because they don't use their computers effectively. For most potential hackers, the P.C.'s on their cluttered desks serve more as $2000 electronic typewriters than as useful academic tools...
...Happy Hacker does not want to discourage students from participating in extracurricular activities, he merely wants to suggest that there are other things to do--such as sitting in front of a terminal on a nice spring day, watching the sun shine and realizing that the weather could be improved with just a few advances in the present hardware and software technology...
...spruced up with a few simple graphs, plots and charts. Rather than merely write about the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, Plot it on a scatter plot. While a chart isn't worth a thousand words, graphs can certainly complement a term paper. One of the Happy Hacker's friends swears that grades on her social science papers are increased a couple of notches because of her Mac graphs...
...Happy Hacker, of Course, sometimes finds a need for more complex or for prettier graphs than Excel and 1-2-3 produce. For the Macintosh, Microsoft's Chart produces excellent charts, plots and graphs. It is much simpler than Excel to use, but its data manipulation capabilities are extremely limited. Excel and Chart are compatible with each other, however, and graphs produced with Chart can be sent to Excel for analysis just as Excel plots can be spruced up in Chart...