How India’s first educational computer arrived on a bullock cart
Take a look around your school or college computer lab. Chances are you’ll find at least one strict rule that doesn’t exist anywhere else on campus: remove your shoes before entering.Strange, isn’t it? After all, nobody asks you to take off your shoes before entering a science lab, a maths classroom or the library.Yet this rule, along with the requirement to write out your code in a notebook before touching a keyboard, has survived for decades.
- ▪Take a look around your school or college computer lab.
- ▪Chances are you’ll find at least one strict rule that doesn’t exist anywhere else on campus: remove your shoes before entering.Strange, isn’t it?
- ▪After all, nobody asks you to take off your shoes before entering a science lab, a maths classroom or the library.Yet this rule, along with the requirement to write out your code in a notebook before touching a keyboard, has survived for de
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Take a look around your school or college computer lab. Chances are you’ll find at least one strict rule that doesn’t exist anywhere else on campus: remove your shoes before entering.Strange, isn’t it? After all, nobody asks you to take off your shoes before entering a science lab, a maths classroom or the library.Yet this rule, along with the requirement to write out your code in a notebook before touching a keyboard, has survived for decades. Most of us comply without ever stopping to ask why.As it turns out, these familiar classroom habits are not just random quirks.
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