On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:31:30 -0500, Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 09/02/09 11:04, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:48:54 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>> What does "101" actually mean? (Besides being the 26th prime number,
>>> anyway.) What do people actually mean when they say "bird watching
>>> 101"?
>>
>> Comes from university systems (at least in the US).  A course number
>> like CS101 is essentially "Computer Science for noobs".  PS101 is
>> "Physical Science for noobs".
> 
> 	Yes, but why 101? Why not 100? (I've occasionally seen a 100 
course,
> but 101 is much more common).

Maybe the first unis that did this figured people were Pascal-based 
rather than C-based.  (Pascal, IIRC, starts arrays at '1', C starts at 
'0').

Jim

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