December 2022
Beginner
384 pages
10h 44m
English
Count yourself blessed if you’ve never had to spell your name over the phone. Or perhaps you’re named Mary Smith, but you live on a street or in a city you must constantly spell aloud. If so, you resort to your own spelling alphabet, something like, “N, as in Nancy” or “K, as in knife.” As a programmer, you can ease this frustration by reading this chapter, where you
Understand the NATO phonetic alphabet and why they even bother.
Translate words into the spelling alphabet.
Read a file to translate words into the phonetic alphabet.
Go backward and translate the NATO alphabet into words.
Read a file to translate the NATO alphabet.
Learn that natto in Japanese is a delicious, fermented soybean paste.
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