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?
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!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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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I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist! -
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:
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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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 still remember how to use one, but other than demonstrations for my children, I haven't used one in decades. :laugh: Ah, for the wonderful good old days, when all we had were stone knives and bear skins...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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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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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!
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I have a slide rule from my late father, along with a circular slide rule and a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).
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a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).
WANT!!!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Besinger wrote:
a slide rule tie clasp (that actually works if you can read it).
WANT!!!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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:thumbsup:
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I did it for the nookie.
So you can take that cookie
Ain't no rest for the wicked.
Jeremy Falcon
