The day you realized you were a programmer ...
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
:) I guess for me it'd be when i stopped typing in code for games from BASIC code listings in books and started writing my own, in ink, in notebooks, when i was supposed to be doing homework.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
i can't recall mine... it was at least 23 years ago. :( :old:
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:) I guess for me it'd be when i stopped typing in code for games from BASIC code listings in books and started writing my own, in ink, in notebooks, when i was supposed to be doing homework.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Sounds very familiar. For me this was in the early to mid 80s and I was 11 or 12 working on that 2k RAM vic20. Or maybe this was after I had my parents spring for the $800 8K RAM upgrade that gave me all the memory I would ever need..
John
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
When you are having a conversation with normal people and you start to visualize how what you are discussing can be converted into a software system. When you keep programmers hours and all your friends know what that means When you have to go back over your emails and letters and remove the semi colons before you send them When you find an error in the .NET framework and have the wisdom to know that with .NET it just might not be your code When no one you know ever asks how your day went because they know you will give them an answer and they really don't want to hear it When on the way to work you constantly think about the unused space on the dash and visualize how well a computer would fit there If you ever ever attempted to win an argument with the phrase, "Look, I can prove it. Here is the truth table" If you have ever taken a sleeping pill to get some sleep for a 7 AM meeting and then got a midnight call for an all nighter that now requires a caffeine pill. Personally, I am tired of being a programmer.
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Sounds very familiar. For me this was in the early to mid 80s and I was 11 or 12 working on that 2k RAM vic20. Or maybe this was after I had my parents spring for the $800 8K RAM upgrade that gave me all the memory I would ever need..
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
Sounds very familiar. For me this was in the early to mid 80s and I was 11 or 12
Ah, no... this was yesterday. :-O :-\
John M. Drescher wrote:
Or maybe this was after I had my parents spring for the $800 8K RAM upgrade that gave me all the memory I would ever need..
Yeah, my brothers & me went from buying baseball cards to buying video cards. Good times... :)
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
When I was in the 3rd grade (this was fall of 1982) a classmate's mom took a group of us into the "computer lab" of the school -- literally a janitor's closet that had 4 or 5 TRS 80's shoehorned into it. She taught us Logo (and later that year, some BASIC). The moment I could tell that machine to do whatever I wanted I knew what I'd be doing for the rest of my life. The fact that I never questioned that decision has only recently begun to bother me.
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency! -Emily Dickinson
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i can't recall mine... it was at least 23 years ago. :( :old:
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
It’s time for you to follow the white rabbit…
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
Are you the one?
Todd Smith
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
patrick.stasko wrote:
Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field.
Why did you leave?
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
I realised I was a programmer some time before my 10th Birthday.
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
When I found out I can write BASIC on my Sharp Scientific EL5500III calculator the day before a math related exam(s)... I am not sure if it was cheating but at that time calculators that could run BASIC was rare and instructors weren't slamming students for computer calculators.
MrPlankton
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
patrick.stasko wrote:
Im a well rounded dork now!
Welcome to the club! I was 13 years old and my new school had some BBC Micros with tape machines attached and one BIG 'puter with a 5.25' floppy drive (can't remember the manufacturer but it booted to a BASIC interpreter like most of them did then). The teacher told us, "If you buy your own disk, you can use the 'special' computer." I rushed to buy a floppy (cost me about a months worth worth of paper round money) and she showed me a few BASIC commands and loaned me a book that explained PEEk amd POKE and lots of other dangerous commands! I got the bug - and I've been infected ever since :-D I hope they never find an antidote!
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn) -
It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
When I realised I started typing words like TeleVision or MotorBike! I started with a research machines 380z and side graded to the ZX range. BBC's and Sirius didn't help, but then an AS400! I was a God. This was back in the days that computers were user hostile, a blank screen and a c:> prompt! I learnt to love and embrace the power I had! A box that did what I wanted it to do told it to do. Wandering around with a 5.25" made me feel special! Now? I am an accountant who writes a bit of VB and C# for work, maintains the web site and am the duty tech head at the office. I STILL LOVE IT!!! :)
------------------------------------ "Password Protected? Your dealing with Geeks, just turn it on, type Gandalf and you're in!" - Frankie Boyle
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D
It all started innocently enough... mark sense cards in high school to write simple applications. Then 2 page flowcharts on how to change a light bulb (there are a lot of exceptions to account for!) Then, 2 years with a Commodore PET before starting college. I would stay over at a friends house and we would have progamming contents... I write code for 15 minutes, then he takes over, but we don't tell each other what the objective was... Then today, during a meeting on how to test interview candidates, I was writing the code in my mind. My boss asked what I was doing and I told her, "That is how I think." Her reply... "You're supposed to think that way! You're a progammer!" Tim
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Sounds very familiar. For me this was in the early to mid 80s and I was 11 or 12 working on that 2k RAM vic20. Or maybe this was after I had my parents spring for the $800 8K RAM upgrade that gave me all the memory I would ever need..
John
For me, when I bought that first book for my Timex Sinclair ZX81. Learned Z80 asm. I wish I still had the little chart that listed off all the opcodes. I never did anything useful on that thing other than put it in "fast mode" to fizz up some concentric shrinking rectangles on the screen. I finally started writing useful stuff for that oh so awesome c64. http://shazware.com/me/pcPast.html[^] Those were the daze :)
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For me, when I bought that first book for my Timex Sinclair ZX81. Learned Z80 asm. I wish I still had the little chart that listed off all the opcodes. I never did anything useful on that thing other than put it in "fast mode" to fizz up some concentric shrinking rectangles on the screen. I finally started writing useful stuff for that oh so awesome c64. http://shazware.com/me/pcPast.html[^] Those were the daze :)
Thanks for the link. Really good stuff. :-D
John
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It happened today for me. I was digging through lines of code in C# VS2008 when my mind started debugging what I was working on. After a few hundred lines of code later it came down to one debugging error! I saw the objects within my C# app coming together in a visio flow chart in my mind. I took a second and it dawned on me, I am a programmer. Yikes! Considering I come from a very heavy Cisco networking field. Im a well rounded dork now! :-D