Why did you became programmers?
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
My degree in engineering and first (real) job in material testing shows what I wanted to do with my life. I am not a true programmer as my current "expertise" is DBA. Got into computers through need while managing a database of pipeline disasters.
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I did it for the opportunity to meet women. :laugh: Actually, I knew I wanted to be a programmer since I wrote my first "app" in BASIC. At the time, I thought I would only ever be able to do it as a hobby. Once I figured out someone would pay me to do it, I never looked back.
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
I didn't get into this programming stuff until after I got out of the Army. It found me, I did not find it. I have never looked back. ;)
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
Because I'm a control freak who reckoned he could do it better than the IT department where I was doing grad work. Turns out I was right :D
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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For my fourth birthday, I got an Atari 800XL... One of those computer-in-a-keyboard systems that used game cartridges and saved BASIC programs on audio casettes. Rumor has it, I played the games for a couple months, then decided I wanted to write my own. My father gave me a copy of The IBM Basic Handbook, taught me about line numbers and for-next loops, and from that moment on, I was doomed to be a programmer. I'm not quite sure how I went from "Wanting to make my own games" to "Developing portfolio management systems for hedge funds"... There's some kind of non-sequitor there...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Gamer? Yes? I used to play a lot of video games when i was still a kid Super Mario was the first game i played. And since I'm into gaming I want to know how they created them and so i took programming.
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
In retrospect I think I was lied to.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
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I did it for the opportunity to meet women. :laugh: Actually, I knew I wanted to be a programmer since I wrote my first "app" in BASIC. At the time, I thought I would only ever be able to do it as a hobby. Once I figured out someone would pay me to do it, I never looked back.
Tim Corey wrote:
Once I figured out someone would pay me to do it, I never looked back.
Yes, that did come as a bit of a shock!
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
I grew up around computers (my dad's), so I always had an interest in them. By the time I got to high school I was proficient in using them, so I didn't want to take the "desktop publishing" class offered (basically how to use MS Word), so I got permission to skip it and take a class in HTML instead, that went well so I took the only programming class offered, in VB.NET (I use the term programming lightly here, it was basically make a form, do some calculations with numeric types when a button was pressed and displaying the result in a label). I toyed with that for a while (I hadn't learned anything useful in the class, took me a while before I figured out there were things like loops and that you can define your own functions, etc.), then picked up a book on C++ I found on clearance, taught myself that, took classes in QBasic and Java when my school joined a program that added some more classes online, and by the end of high school figured I just keep doing it. I graduate with by BS in Mathematics and Computer Science next May, and my MS in the same the year after that. :-D
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Because I'm a control freak who reckoned he could do it better than the IT department where I was doing grad work. Turns out I was right :D
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
You must have had one reeeeeaaaaally horrible IT department. :)
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You must have had one reeeeeaaaaally horrible IT department. :)
Oh, you'll keep mate. Yes you will.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
I was lucky enough to own a ZX spectrum back in 1982 and ever since then have been fascinated with IT. Fortunately back in the 80's IT progress was slow enough that I could learn at a reasonable pace - although there was no world wide web so I had to make do with 400+ page manuals that could in no manner be described as user friendly. I can't say I knew it, but I was fairly sure after a few hours on the good old speccy that I would be using computers in one way or another in my adult working life. I took a degree in IT because I thought it would make me money - what I got was something even better than money, I got to work in an area that I really enjoy :)(being a lawyer or doctor would have made me much more wealthy)
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― Christopher Hitchens
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
I needed to fill the schedule for my senior year of high school and "computer math" seemed interesting enough. :shrug:
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
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Oh, you'll keep mate. Yes you will.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Oh, you'll keep mate.
I'm not quite sure what that means. Is it some form of Aussie* dialect? *Australopithecus Africanus
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Oh, you'll keep mate.
I'm not quite sure what that means. Is it some form of Aussie* dialect? *Australopithecus Africanus
You'll keep[^] Our interpretation is close, but a little more flavoured with "...and I know where you live." ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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You'll keep[^] Our interpretation is close, but a little more flavoured with "...and I know where you live." ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
You have just barely avoided the Maunder Dictionary, but it won't last. :rolleyes:
Chris Maunder wrote:
I know where you live
True story. I once bought a present on Amazon and had it directly shipped to a friend with the gift note "you don't know who I am, but I know where you live." I also signed it with my name. It was a reference to King of the Hill, but he didn't get the reference and got very upset. :laugh:
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You'll keep[^] Our interpretation is close, but a little more flavoured with "...and I know where you live." ;)
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
I kind of fell into it. My background was in electronics and we needed to know assembly to troubleshoot the computers back when it was cost effective to do so. The real reason I got into programming was that when I was a lead tech on the production floor part of my duties were to inventory the new builds and returned products and provide throughput results. This consisted of manually counting the devices, writing the numbers down, entering the info into an Excel spread sheet so some office clerk could manually enter the data into Access to make a nice chart. This effort took a day a half to complete which took time from doing what I wanted to do. So I created a few macros in Access that automated most of the work and created the nice chart with just a few clicks. The inventory process took only an hour to do after that. They gave me a bonus check for $2000. I thought wow! All I did was knock out a few lines of code, wrapped in nice looking windows forms and they gave me 2 Grand… Sweet! I was hooked. I never looked back.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Hi guys, When you will still young like in grade school or earlier, did you already know that you would take a career in IT? Or do you have other dreams and it just happened that you would like to know how the computer works and stuff and ended up taking up a degree in IT?
I did it for the chicks. Why else would you do it?
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
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This saying is really only used by well educated and intelligent individuals.
Nice!
I love the honesty and integrity of community sourced material.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP