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What about "CS 101" at your local community college or extension class?
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If that option is available, it might be a very good option.
Lots of people live too far away from a college. Even if there is a local college, the course may be taught at times when you cannot leave your ordinary work. Or admission to the college requries that certain formalities are in place, e.g. that the course is available only to full time students.
Finally (this might be a bigger problem in Europe than in the US): Some colleges/universities fiercely cling to the idea that Windows or anything else coming from MS is toy software - Real, Professional Software is Linux based (and with a command line interface, not a GUI). All basic courses are based on Linux and open-source software; Windows software/tools are introduced only as one of several options in courses for specializing in end user application development. Lots of newly educated bachelors and masters spend years of frustration when entering the working life, realizing how much toy software is out there, and how difficult it is to enlighten people about the blessings of Linux and command line interfaces.
If your local college is of that sort, you can go there to learn Linux and C (and possibly python), but you may search in vain for C#, VS and dotNet related courses.
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Thanks for the thoughts, actually the guys is already working as a government employee as a Police Officer, but he is interested to learn the software development and wants to pursue his career in it. So i was thinking to give him the direction towards .NET Technologies, i would suggest him this course to be taken online as self-paced option is provided by few web sites online.
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Somehow, it rinses my evil left hand (8)
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anagram of it rinses
evil - sinister
plus left handed people are known as sinister, or something like that, if my memory of QI is correct.
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You are up tomorrow! 
I thought I might throw you off by giving you the same solution as yesterday, with a very different clue!
Somehow, it rinses (anag)
my evil SINISTER
left hand SINISTER (as opposed to DEXTER, right hand - which is where "dexterous" comes from)
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I wasn't on here yesterday so didn't see it 
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Bugger! Bugger! Bugger! Bugger! Bugger!
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 Yep!
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OK: The car stereo sends electrical signals to the speaker cones to make them vibrate in the pattern of "Space Oddity". But there is no air for the speaker cones to move.
So, is there a sound?
Is the car stereo "playing" Space Oddity, if there is no sound?
If there were an astronaut there, either in a very thin space suit or with some mechanical extender through the suit to his fingertips, so that he could touch and feel the vibration of the speaker cones with his fingertips: Would there then be a sound? Would the car stereo be "playing"?
Or, if the extender through the space suit goes not to his fingertips, but to his scull, so that he experiences the vibrations as if they were real sounds, are they then sounds even though no air at all is moving?
If it doesn't take moving air to call it a sound, does it still require the speaker cones? If you disconnect the speakers, letting the cables directly out in thin space, the voltage differnce between their tips represent an energy potential varying in the pattern of Space Oddity. Is that a sound? Or does "sound" require mechanical movements, even if it doesn't require air movements?
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With the speakers, there is sound: place your space-helmeted head against the body of the car and you may be able to hear the cones moving as they vibrate the body of the car. (This may be very faint due to the shock insulating material that mounts the cone to the speaker body, but in space no one can hear you watch "Scream" so there isn't anything else to listen to).
Without them? No, no "sound" since it is defined as:
Quote: vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.
--- Google
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The good things about definitions are that you have so many to choose from 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest[^] ... So the philosophical question is settled now; we don't have to worry about it any more.
I guess we will soon make a definition that unambiguously determines whether the cat is dead or alive, too, and Schrödinger may relax, and terminate his cat extinction project Maybe we can do away with the entire quantum physics!
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I've always the tree in the forest question rather anthropocentric.
There may not be a human there to hear the tree fall but surely the squirrels and the birds are going to know about it. Trees are very important to them and they probably pay more attention to these matters than we do.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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As long ago as WW II they had microphones that did not work with air but were placed on the pilots throat to pick up vibrations. This was needed because their voices were not audible due to the engine noise.
So why shouldn't this transfer via contact not work in space ?
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Bbbb bad to the bone ... 
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Sure it would work. But is it a sound? What does it take to make it a sound? if the speaker cone vibrates without anyone touching them, is that a sound? If you disconnect the speakers and touch the cable end with your tounge, feeling the vibrating electrical potential, does your tounge then feel a sound?
If a sound requires a mechanical vibration (but any mechanical vibration satisfies), how do you then label the sensation created by the sound? Your brain, your conciousness, does not vibrate. The mechanical vibration is converted to something else (electrical signals) long before they reach your conciousness. So your conciousness cannot hear a sound. What can it "hear"?
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Member 7989122 wrote: So your conciousness cannot hear a sound. What can it "hear"?
One hand clapping, and a tree falling in the forest.
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If it's playing "Space Oddity" on loop, why did all of the broadcasts and the earlier simulation video feature "Life on Mars"?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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If you whack the astronaut up the side of the head with a baseball bat, but there is no baseball, Is that equivalent to watching cricket?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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... to go online?[^]
Should be a compulsory test that. 
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We know you have failed it!
(otherwise you wouldn't be here)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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