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Re:Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video] by layoutIfNeeded on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:57PM (#25705274)
My dad is a 55 year old mechanical engineer. He have called me 3 times today with various questions regarding C++. He’s learning it by writing a program to draw Bezier curves.

Maybe at 55 I’ll pick up mechanical engineering as a hobby.

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Re:Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video] by fortran77 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:34PM (#25705680)
Hey! I'm 58 and just starting a new contracting position writing software for Software Defined Radios, which I never did before. Started working with Matlib. Need to learn/relearn some math, too. 55 is certainly not too old to learn C++.
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