[nfbcs] best computer for a CS student? and Retirement!

[David Andrews]

I am hijacking a thread here ...

I think we should offer our best wishes to Susie 
Stanzel here!  She is retiring from the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture tomorrow, Friday, after 
many years as a programmer.  I don't know how 
many -- I am not good with big numbers (smile.)  She can tell you.

For those of you who don't know, Susie is a long 
time Federationist, was Kansas State President at 
one t5ime, and more importantly to us, has been 
an officer in NFB in Computer Science for many 
years.  She has always been outside our meetings, 
at convention registering people!

Good luck Susie.

Dave

SAt 03:34 PM 2/23/2015, you wrote:
>Suzanne,
>
>I am interested in what computer courses you 
>have taken and where you are going to school. I 
>am retiring this week from the USDA in Kansas 
>City. I started when we used punch cards, 
>lovingly called IBM cards. My have things 
>evolved since then. Do you attend the NFB national conventions?
>
>Susie Stanzel
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>Behalf Of Suzanne Germano via nfbcs
>Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 10:46 AM
>To: Louis Maher; NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] best computer for a CS student?
>
>I am a CS student I use a macbook pro with 16 
>gigs of RAM and 750gig harddrive With the mac I 
>can run in mac OSX which I needed for my mobile 
>development class in which we used objective-c. 
>I run parallels and have a windows 7 VM which I 
>used when I am forced to used Visual Studio. I 
>also used virtual box and have a linux vm which 
>was required for another course. I have Eclipse 
>on both my mac and windows environment. I also 
>have Microsoft Office in both environments. 
>Mac's now come with iWorks in which you can save everything in Office formats.
>
>If you are going to run virtual machines then get a much memory as you can.
>
>Suzanne
>
>On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Louis Maher via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>wrote:
>
> > Eden,
> >
> > Go to your college and ask the department what students use.  I am a
> > fan of the Microsoft Surface Pro three computers.  You will have to
> > use Microsoft Windows a great deal, and you can remotely login to
> > other machines when you need those environments.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Louis Maher
> > Phone 713-444-7838
> > E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of eden via
> > nfbcs
> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 7:39 AM
> > To: Nancy Coffman; NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [nfbcs] best computer for a CS student?
> >
> >     I keep hearing people suggest switching to a mac, wouldn't it be
> > hard to learn, and how hard is it to set up the vm for Windows 7?  I
> > am not a computer techie just yet I'm pretty green.
> >
> > Eden
> > On 2/23/2015 5:28 AM, Nancy Coffman via nfbcs wrote:
> > > If you are considering running Windows on your Mac, I would go with
> > > a
> > MacBook Pro. The processor speed will help you in the long run.
> > >
> > > Nancy Coffman
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Feb 23, 2015, at 4:59 AM, Vincenzo Rubano via nfbcs <
> > nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Im studying computer science at university. I am using a Macbook
> > >> Air
> > >> 2013 to do just anything, from programming to studying Math-related
> > >> subjects

> > >>
> > >> I would suggest going for  a mac: it has all the advantage of a
> > >> unix-based system, but it gives you a great interface to use the
> > >> system for everyday tasks. Also, if you would need Windows, you
> > >> could always run it within a Vmware Virtual Machine

> > >>
> > >> If I were you, i would consider a  Macbook air (customized with 8 gb
> > >> RAM
> > and the I7 processor, which are must-have IMHO) or maybe a Macbook pro
> > (even the base configuration should be fine, but if budget is not a
> > problem switch to an I7 customized version). These are really great
> > machines: I chose for the Macbook air because it’s more lightweight
> > and battery lasts significantly longer.
> > >>
> > >> HTH.
> > >>
> > >> Vincenzo.
> > >>
> > >>> Il giorno 22/feb/2015, alle ore 21:40, nfbcs at nfbnet.org ha scritto:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi all:
> > >>> My name is Jorge.
> > >>> I just graduated high school last year and had to take a year off
> > >>> because my family and I moved to Florida from New York City, so I
> > >>> was waiting for the residency rule to kick in college wise because
> > >>> the tuition is about half or more of what out-of-state students pay.
> > >>> At any rate, I've already got my acceptance letter to community
> > >>> college, and I'm going to be majoring in Programming and Analysis.
> > >>> My question is, what computer would be better for me in terms of
> > school work?
> > >>> I don't know what language my classes are going to use, but since
> > >>> I'm also going to be doing a lot of work outside of class--I'm
> > >>> going to be a freelance programmer on the side--I already know
> > >>> HTML pretty well and I'm going to be learning other languages
> > >>> soon, what computer has the biggest number of accessible
> > >>> development environments for the most number of languages?
> > >>> I have experience using both Mac and Windows, using Voice Over,
> > >>> JAWS and System Access, so the screenreader isn't a problem for me.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> Jorge

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
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