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Piece Description
It's the time of year to head south for a winter vacation. Some computer programmers - they call themselves nerds - travel about an hour south of Atlanta to a spend a week at a dude ranch. But it's not the kind of place where guests ride horses or lounge in hot tubs.
Broadcast History
Originally aired on Marketplace, April, 2007
Transcript
BIG NERD RANCH
Philip L. Graitcer
NAT (Birds tweeting, etc)
PG: We're in the middle of a 14-thousand acre nature preserve in middle Georgia. And inside a resort hotel dappled by sunlight and surrounded by swaying pines, Aaron Hillgass teaches 17 tenderfoots about the complex beauty... of software coding.
[bring up NAT (alert panel)] So we actually use a c function for this and the c function is the n s run alert panel. You give it the title, the text up here in the middle, and then you give it the name of the buttons...
PG: Welcome to the Big Nerd Ranch. Hillegass founded it 6 years ago so computer developers could focus on learning programming skills, far from outside distractions. Hillegass was the head trainer at Next and Apple. To programmers he's kinda like Yoda, but taller. He says Big Nerd isn't so much a ranch as a kind of zen hideaway.
ACT (idea)...
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Timing and Cues
It's the time of year to head south for a winter vacation. Some computer programmers ? they call themselves nerds ?travel about an hour south of Atlanta to a spend a week at a dude ranch. But it?s not the kind of place where guests ride horses or lounge in hot tubs.
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