How did you get involved in programming?
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
In 1969, my high school started a computer programming pilot program using an IBM System/360[^], which I enrolled in. All of our programs were in Fortran IV, punched on 80 column punch cards. My first program computed the sum of the first 10 integers, and worked correctly the first time (the classic "Hello World" had not yet been invented). The computer had a quite respectable 2 Megabytes of memory. I was amazed at the things I could do with this newfangled device, and was smitten. Nowadays, there is more programming power in an Apple watch.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
It all started for me when I was given a Commodore 64 by my parents, we had Atari2600 games console before this, and obviously this was the next step. It wasn't ApplevsGoogle back then, it was Commodore vs Spectrum. Did the usual copying long programs out of magazines, just to get a ?Syntax Error. After the C64, I moved onto the Amiga500. But it wasn't until I left school and joined BP on their apprenticeship scheme for Offshore Oil&Gas, we started to get taught simple programming as part of the course, I remember we used a BBC Micro for this. After doing the basic into to the syntax, keywords, program flow/logic etc. one of the exercises that still sticks in my mind was to write a program in as few lines/characters as possible that wrote out to screen the all verses of "10 green bottles". A couple years laters on the apprenticeship, we were into microprocessor programming, and still remember punching strings of hex codes into so CPU evaluation board. I went offshore in 1992 as an instrument tech, and that's where the interest really picked up (The instrument department had 386 laptop that was the envy of everyone onboard) as we had to do the programming on the plant controllers, plc's etc. However, on nightshift, it was pretty quiet, so I started to teach myself Visual Basic (VB3) and then progressed through the versions, into .Net and then made the switch to C# as my language of choice in probably around 2011. If was not long after going offshore that I purchased my first PC at home. Took a loan out from the bank for it, it was a Escom 486 DX2 66. I remember having to justify to the bank why I wanted it! From that point, there was no going back really. :)
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I was 12 years old and stumbled into a Radio Shack. There they had a brand new TRS-80 (Model I), all alone, switched on and the manual right next to it. And no, my parents had no computer before then. They thought I was crazy and did not intend to buy one, so I scraped together the few bucks I had and got myself a kit like this one[^] and built it myself. Actually it's still work in progress. Just last week I worked on a graphics card with a second CPU, so that the main CPU finally can run at its maximum clock frequency.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
It was that kid down the road, Charles who got me started. Him and his bloody girlfriend Ada!
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It was that kid down the road, Charles who got me started. Him and his bloody girlfriend Ada!
veni bibi saltavi
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
I was 6 or 8, I can't remember and my parents took me to a trade fair where it was a booth with some super old computers (new at that time) they had installed a sum and rest simple program I played with a little. That was my first contact, I loved it and started going to academies to learn MSDOS, GWBASIC, DBASE III and IV, LOTUS 123 and C.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
I loved to play using computer and then started to know about google and chat things. I also want to know what they actually do with computer and slowly learned flash then got interested in web designing. Slowly came across the technology and finally changed as full stack developer.
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I did it for the nookie.
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I did it for the nookie.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
Mostly at school. Had a great teacher, and that fitted my introverted self.
I'd rather be phishing!
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
The best Christmas gift I ever got was a TI/994a back in '83. Not only was it good for games, but best of all I could write programs that solved problems, like math or geometry homework. I could even use the cassette drive to save, then reload my programs!..until the interface gave out! I didn't really deal with computers again until I started college a few years later, becoming a CS major and learned the basics of c, pascal, and fortran, before finding a part-time job that became full-time, and kept me out of the lab....I wound up quitting school and became a press operator for most of the next 10 years. When I decided that I was ready to go back and finish school in '98, the programming world was in a much different place than I had left it...you didn't just type in programs into a terminal in the lab and pray that they compiled, then print out your code and results on greenbar paper. :laugh: Finally, I could do my 'lab' work at home, at any hour of the day!
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
I was working as chemist at time, and we got an Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Spectrophotometer that used a PDP-11 for massaging the detector signals. I thought it would be nice if we could get elemental composition percentages during the analysis. So I learned PDP-11 assembly and wrote a statistics program. Then I wrote some programs to work with gas spectro results when the ICAP was not being used. Things kinda got out of hand after that, and I wound up owning a computer store (anybody remember KayPro?) and doing custom programming for the oil driling industry in Alaska.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
For me it was a bit of accident / luck. When I was younger I wanted to join the Army as a mechanic. But then I lost the hearing in my left ear and that was the end of that. So while my dad was still in hte army and working in Germany I joined the Youth Training Scheme and started to work for the Small System Group for the army. My first introduction to programming was a system for SSAFA, a housing system. When I returned to the UK I started Uni and got my first job real IT job after that.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
My father worked in a hospital in the communist Hungary...One way to get equipment from the west was via sealed containers of electronics...Some of the electronics were not used after examination (didn't fit?) and the employees could buy if relatively cheap...So I got a C64...And the rest, they say, is history...
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
School, mid 1970s. A couple of maths teachers (Rick Dunsby & Brian Thomas) ran a computing "club". We started with, IIRC, Casio FX-201P programmable calculators and then they got hold of one of these..... MONROBOT-XI[^] Picture[^] Ours had only the one TTY and (paper) tape reader/punch. Integer arithmetic only, no divide or multiplication operators, hand assembly of mnemonics to op codes and no editing of entered code. Make a balls-up part way through typing a routine in and you had to re-enter it all from scratch. Mind you it was only marginally slower to boot (10 or 15 minutes) than a Windoze PC and most of that time was waiting for the drum to get up to speed. Unfortunately Mr. Dunsby then went on to build a micro based on the 6800 which ran (a) Kansas City Basic and it was all downhill from there. :)
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At the time I was going to college I was learning to use a slide rule and the college just started a computer program and I figured it would be easier to learn to program a computer then a slide rule. I was wrong!
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I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!You inspired me to dig out one of my old slide rules. ... And I can't remember how to use the damned thing!
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You inspired me to dig out one of my old slide rules. ... And I can't remember how to use the damned thing!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I kept my first slide rule for many years but never did learn how to use it.
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I kept my first slide rule for many years but never did learn how to use it.
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I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!I know that if I start googling, I'll lose the whole day to it, so it's going back in the box.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know that if I start googling, I'll lose the whole day to it, so it's going back in the box.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
It's so easy to get distracted...smart move.
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How did you get involved in programming? Surely, you must have heard about a computer before somewhere in your lifetime, and then for some reason, you decided to go into programming, either for fun or for profit or both. Also, how did you become aware of the existence of the computer? Did your family have a personal computer when you were little? Were you a mathematician?
In 1974, my father gave an evening course in FORTRAN for high-school students at the local University. Note that this was still the age of punched cards and batch processing. He took me along a few evenings, and I wrote my first program. It set a precedent by having a bug in it. :laugh:
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