How bad is your googling habit and what does it mean?

You're right, of course, which is why all human civilization came to an end when they invented encyclopedias and people could just look stuff up in them.Oh, wait. That's not what happened at all?

I don't recall it being a revolution that threated human free will, as you suggest. I try but they're always yelling at me to turn off my devil music and get off their lawn.

Just from memory of 8th-grade civics, without any verification via internet (as you request), and therefore extremely tentatively and almost certainly wrongly on many counts, the Zoot Suit Riots (I do remember that you've spelled it wrong) were a series of altercations between shore-leaved sailors and the local gangs, who dressed in striped, baggy suits called "Zoot suits", that arose amid the swing clubs of late 1950's San Francisco.Or something. Some city in California, some sailors, some guys in funny suits with big hats, switchblades, and swing music is all I remember. I imagine a fair bit of that is conflated with Zoot Suit Riot, the first album from Cherry Poppin' Daddies, back in 1997. The above was an attempt to fill in the blanks with guessing. (I'm usually pretty good at that, or at least convincing.)

After I answered I Wiki'd it, and you're right. LA, 1942. And it was sailors and soldiers vs. Mexican-american gangs, I had thought they were Italians for some reason.Anyway I gave it the ol' college try, because you asked. Ah, so you're the Silent Generation.

I don't understand what "pegged pants" are.

That's just what I'd expect a robot to say, robot.

I'm not so sure about that. I've been on the stupid-looking end of remembering something confidently and wrong often enough that I think it's wise to google things (or, more often, wiki things) to prevent making serious unintentional boners.I think it's more important to look up the things you think you know than the reverse, actually.

Wait, what? Iterative programming was one of the earliest concepts we studied in Comp Sci I, right after recursion. Isn't your basic "for" loop an example of iterative programming?Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by the term.

Unless I still don't understand what you mean by "iterative" - and this might very well be because I don't know much about educational theory - I think you could make an argument that writing a program was frequently iterative; generally you block out the general structure of a program, using placeholders for functions, then going back and filling in the blanks, then going back and debugging (repeat this last about 20 times), etc.I don't mean to sandbag you with nit-picking, of course, I'm just trying to arrive at a sense of what you're saying.

Fair enough. I guess the problem was an unfortunate choice of words; you inadvertently used a term that had a different meaning in computer science.But, I kind of get the sense of what you're saying. Some learning is iterative, though; learning by rote, for instance. That's proved not to be especially instructive, though, which I think proves your point.