Pascal Youtubes

 I have been creating some Youtubes on how to write useful Pascal Applets.  Overall, it is sort of a class on Programming.  Personally, I think Pascal is an excellent first programming language with reasonable performance.  I also think Python performance is poor at best, even though its performance may be ok when installing the app.  But data grows over time and Python apps performance will degrade exponentially as the data grows. Pascal program run times should grow linearly as the data grows, as would c and c++ programs. "c" and "c++" do produce slightly faster programs but will require higher level of technical skills to write said programs.

There are some help files at:     Help Files

I will admit I am not very good at this.  These are not super high quality videos and I stutter a little bit while recording.  I have some minor nerve problems.

They probably should be viewed in order.

 

Intro	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ6wAkgN1Uw
Installation	https://youtu.be/4kfsRjMWkH8
Simple I/O	https://youtu.be/bK8Fq7XtVXI
Simple Lazarus App	https://youtu.be/I9yvMuvR1co
Pascal Math	https://youtu.be/FQ4J5NBgAno
File Access*1	https://youtu.be/QcF6SIng89s
Procedures And Functions*2	https://youtu.be/g7dljYAbkEM
Lazarus DB App Pt1	https://youtu.be/B0P5jC35l8g
Lazarus DB App Pt2	https://youtu.be/3UTKIarJIoY
Arrays*3	https://youtu.be/3-m4Jcwgxvw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

^*1 This one is important since it covers accessing and updating MySQL databases.

^*2 Important since it covers how to do sub routines 

^*3 Arrays are the most heavily used data structure in computer science

 

 

The Presidential Election as I see it

 

I wrote a little app to download poll data from FiveThirtyEight.com and then imported the data into a MySQL database table. I then calculated based on weighted average the Electoral College vote tally. The newer the poll, the more I valued it. I had noticed that the Morning Consult polls of 12/14 (GA, PA, MI, WI, NV, AZ and NC) were not in the data and since the poll data I looked at was kind of old, I felt it was statistically ok to add those polls.

Without those polls Trump was getting 265 EV to 211 for Biden. After adjusting those states which had no polling data to historically how they usually vote, it became 279 to 254 electoral votes respectfully. Including the poll data from Morning Consult it becomes 310 to 223 electoral votes respectfully.

 

I believe this election if it continues along the current trends with Trump vs Biden, it could become very similar to the 1980 election cycle. That’s right, it could very easily turn into a blowout!!! If I was the Democrats I would get both Biden and Harris to step aside, neither one appears to be electable. If the Republicans were smart, they would nominate Haley, she seems much more presidential and reasonable and would be more electable in a traditional contest. I intend to vote for her in the Caucuses, not that it will do much good.